W and K callsigns

[Karl W4KRL]

The visit to the WMAL transmitter site was a reminder that many callsigns
meant something at one time. WMAL was founded by the M. A. Leese Optical
Company. The station website has a good history as does Wikipedia. WTTG was
named for Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr, DuMont Network's chief engineer. My
hometown Chambersburg has stations WCHA and WCBG.

 

An excellent website for radio history is http://earlyradiohistory.us/

 

There is an interesting article about Washington DC AM station history:
http://earlyradiohistory.us/hist-dc.htm

 

Also some recent articles about the W & K prefixes and three letter
callsigns:

 

http://earlyradiohistory.us/recap.htm

 

http://earlyradiohistory.us/3myst.htm

 

73 Karl W4KRL

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