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Old June 11th 04, 12:04 AM
Aaron Jones
 
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(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

HAH! Look up the history of channel 5, Ames Ia. Early on, Iowa State
University used W0YI, for their television station, which _is_ the callsign
for the amateur radio facility there. The eventual commercial callsign WOI
is a direct derivative of that amateur radio callsign.


I'm not sure how "early on" you mean but from my 1934 Callbook you'll notice
it's W9YI not W0YI since there was no tenth district:

W9YI-Iowa State College, Edd R. McKee, 2119 Country Club Blvd., Ames Iowa.

However by my 1947 Callbook the switch to W0YI had been made and as another
poster pointed out they kept the same suffix:

W0YI-Campus R. C., Eng Annex, Iowa St. Coll. Ames Iowa