U.S. Call Sign History

Post date: Sep 12, 2016 4:2:17 AM

Ever wonder about "W" vs. "K" call signs in the Amateur service, or how someone got that particular "weird" callsign assigned to them? Here's a good article from the 1994 QST magazine on the history of call signs (attached).

And a Wikipedia article on U.S. licensing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_licensing_in_the_United_States

Want to see what the current systematically-assigned calls are? See the lower right corner of this page:

http://www.hamdata.com/fccinfo.html