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To: SkyDancer
From posts I’ve gotten the “K” and “W” were later editions.

How much later is later?

"By 1912, the need to quickly identify stations operated by multiple companies in multiple nations required an international standard; an ITU prefix would be used to identify a country, and the rest of the call sign an individual station in that country."

Call Signs

29 posted on 02/28/2018 10:58:03 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon

Dunno - was told “later they added a dividing line”


45 posted on 02/28/2018 11:39:02 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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