Comments by "VE7NDE" (@denelson83) on "This River Has A Huge Impact On Radio!" video.

  1. 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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  2. World's Greatest Newspaper, actually.
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  3. No, that is WWV. WWVB has always been in Larimer County, Colorado, sited north of Fort Collins.
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  4.  @scratchpad7954  And in any event, callsigns starting with CU are allocated to Portugal, not Canada.
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  5. ​ @JohnPatterson-kz8jr No, KDKA is in Pittsburgh.
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  6.  @ernestsmith3581  Wrong. WWV started in Washington, DC in May of 1920, parenthetically older than KDKA.
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9.  @vanpenguin22  Were you thinking of KFBK 1530? That too is a Class A station.
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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12.  @5roundsrapid263  Same with WOAI in San Antonio, TX.
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  13.  @wileypadrino7446  Just a coincidence. And parenthetically, Mexican broadcast station callsigns start with X.
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  14. i.e., A single-frequency network.
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