Keyboard In The Noise wrote:

Thanks to all who answered -- seems to narrow down to an experimental
commercial call sign as the person that inquired sed his Dad had the call
and was also a station engineer at an early NY TV station.

Coincidently he was a Ham also maybe held 2NJ back in the 20's

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Keyboard In The Noise

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On 2004-06-08 19:44:50 -0500, "Keyboard In The Noise" said:


Had an inquiry that sed his Dad's call was W10XEG

Before 1946 -- I think there were just call areas one thru nine.

Sometime around 1946, the 10th call area was established -- the zero
district, but was this ever the W10 area ??

Also the X in the suffix -- I thought was for experimental stations ???

Any old timers recall ??

Thanks

Post any answers here please


There were never any 1X4 callsigns issued. If the first letter of the
suffix started with X, then it was an experimental station. I think
this ended in the 50s. Early TV stations in the 30s had calls like
W2XGE and so on. I always thought it was odd to have an amateur type
call attached to experimental commercial stations.

I think the 10th call area (0) started in the late 40s. If you were in
the new 10th district but had a W9 call, you received a W0 call with
the same suffic as your W9 call had.

Hope this helps,

73
George
K3UD

Just to throw some more confusion into the fray, in the 1937 April-May
issue of National Radio News, a magazine published by National Radio
Institute, a subscriber writes, "I am sending you a station card from
amateur station W21OR, owned by graduate King J. Fothergill. It will be
a pleasure to see my call letters appear in the ever-growing list of
N.R.I. Ham stations".
Was this a misprint? Should it have been W2IOR? He was from NY.
Inquiring minds want to know.