K-WHAT?, odd call letters.
 

On Jul 30, 5:34 am, dxAce wrote:
Drifter wrote:
http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/26/business/engle.html

thanks to the "Star-Bulletin", and Ms. Engle.

Already been the subject of some discussion on DXLD.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


At one time there supposedly was a list of calls deep within the FCC
that were no-no's. I suspect that when assignment was automated that
the list, if it ever existed, went away. I do know that there was an
internet site called kcuf.com years ago that did hourlong
presentations of punk music that could be played streaming or
downloaded. It was a crude attempt at the idea of "internet radio"
that was floating around in the early days. Today "internet radio" has
been totally superseded by podcasts. kcuf.com was supposedly descended
from a pirate station also called KCUF. I'd be curious to know if the
KCUF in Colorado managed to claim the kcuf.com domain, or if they had
to use something else. The farm town of Watsonville, California, had
an FM station called KPIG starting in the late 60s that was run by a
local commune (the area was a popular hippie retreat) called Freedom.
Back then, calls were approved individually, but the FCC apparently
didn't know that "pig" was leftist slang for a police officer. KPIG
hasn't been on the air for years, and the site of Freedom is
apparently tract houses (the area is still called Freedom by locals,
however).