Comments by "VE7NDE" (@denelson83) on "Ringway Manchester" channel.

  1. So that tells us that the regular buzzing sound is in fact a channel marker.
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  2. TLDW: 🇰 vs. 🇼. BTW, the reason for K and W goes all the way back to Morse code. The US originally wanted all the A and N callsigns for its Army and Navy, respectively. And if you put an extra dah onto the Morse code representations of A and N, you get W and K respectively.
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  3. There are also stories of the Green Bank Telescope having been interfered with by transmissions from orbiting satellites, and with the advent of Starlink, the Telescope is going to start getting a lot more of such interference.
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  4. World's Greatest Newspaper, actually.
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  5.  @BartBe  It isn't.
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  6. No, that is WWV. WWVB has always been in Larimer County, Colorado, sited north of Fort Collins.
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  7.  @scratchpad7954  And in any event, callsigns starting with CU are allocated to Portugal, not Canada.
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  8. ​ @JohnPatterson-kz8jr No, KDKA is in Pittsburgh.
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  9.  @ernestsmith3581  Wrong. WWV started in Washington, DC in May of 1920, parenthetically older than KDKA.
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  10. The definition of the term "amateur radio" is entirely opposite to the term "broadcasting".
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  11. It is too bad there is not a similar radio quiet zone around the Dominion Radio Astronomy Observatory near Penticton, BC, Canada.
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  12. There are other three-letter callsigns in use in Washington State: KIT in Yakima, KPQ in Wenatchee, KUJ in Walla Walla, and the television callsign of KHQ in Spokane.
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  13. I thought KGO was a San Francisco station. KGO 810 and KSL 1160 are both Class A or "clear channel" stations.
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  14.  @vanpenguin22  Were you thinking of KFBK 1530? That too is a Class A station.
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  15. So, this was a simple scientific experiment that was a little bit misguided. The only remaining question is whom this customer was.
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  16.  @erinw6120  And WXYZ was chosen as the station that originally had that callsign wanted to be the "last word in radio". It is now WXYT.
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  17. In fact, the FCC allows new broadcast stations in Minnesota and Louisiana to pick between K and W for their callsigns' first letter, precisely because the Mississippi River goes through the interiors of those states. Around 1987, the custom was to extend the K/W dividing line north from Lake Itasca to the point where the Koochiching-Saint Louis county line meets the Canada-US border, but this is no longer the practice.
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  18.  @5roundsrapid263  Same with WOAI in San Antonio, TX.
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  19.  @wileypadrino7446  Just a coincidence. And parenthetically, Mexican broadcast station callsigns start with X.
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  20. This is why if NBC stations stay on the network feed when they are supposed to go to a cued local commercial break, you end up seeing a flashing NBC logo and repeatedly hearing the NBC chimes.
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  21. i.e., A single-frequency network.
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  22. Well then, which government agency?
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  23.  @AnnBearForFreedom  Same thing.
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  24. Radio technicians use the term "unmodulated carrier" instead of "dead air".
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  25. It's not VVW or VVWH, it's WWV and WWVH.
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