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Originally Posted by zeno
A 3 or four letter "call" is issued by the FCC for AM, FM, TV & SW broadcast
stations. K calls are almost always west of Mississippi river & W calls to
the east. We also have A & N calls for other things. In Romania you have
calls starting YO.
The Americas are where they are used often. Examples are
Canada C & VO
Mexico XE
The calls often stand for something. Examples
WLS Worlds Largest Store
WATD We are At The Dump
WARE in Ware Mass.
WTAG Worcester Telegram And Gazette
In US its law to use calls every 1/2 hr IIRC.
BTW airplane tail numbers usually use the same system.
73 Zeno 
LFOD ! |
And my personal favorite from years back , in Quincy Ma. we had WJDA which was the initials of the man who founded the (AM radio) station , John D Asher . This was the first radio station I ever saw the inner workings of (transmitter , broadcast room , etc) and the man had a thing for Bells (like we have a thing for old TVs and Radios) and there were Bells of every sort everywhere in the station on display . (the Bells were never played on the air , but we had WJIB FM which used to play the Ship's Bell tone on the hour)