{"id":6368,"date":"2013-02-25T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=6368"},"modified":"2023-04-08T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T00:05:16","slug":"call-sign-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/call-sign-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Sign Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found this youtube video about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania radio stations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I3zZwznHVdE?list=UU_yhlhPyZ2JLz2qHyAs3oQQ\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s cool and all that, but it brings up the question about the K\/W calls which were misplaced during the early days of broadcasting.&nbsp; Originally, call letters were assigned to ships and coastal radio stations in the following way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-letter call signs were for coastal (land) stations.\u00a0 K letter calls were for shore stations in the west and W letter calls were for shore stations east.\u00a0 Ships were assigned four-letter calls, W calls signs were issued to ships homeported on the west coast and K calls for ships homeported on the east coast.\u00a0 There was a period of time when a few K call letters were issued to east coast broadcasting stations, no one is quite sure why.\u00a0 Prior to 1923, the K\/W boundary was not the Mississippi River, but the eastern border of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.\u00a0 Thus, there are many more misplaced W call signs than K call signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, KDKA and KQV come to mind. Philadelphia has KYW. What other misplaced call signs are there, e.g. W&#8217;s west of the Mississippi and K&#8217;s to the east?\u00a0 Of course, one can google it and get an answer, however, there is one that is pretty obscure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this youtube video about Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania radio stations: That&#8217;s cool and all that, but it brings up the question about the K\/W calls which were misplaced during the early days of broadcasting.&nbsp; Originally, call letters were assigned to ships and coastal radio stations in the following way: Three-letter call signs were for coastal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2013\/02\/call-sign-trivia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call Sign Trivia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[268,267],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-call-signs","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11448,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}