Call Signs (was: Tell your conlang story!)

> That east/west of the Mississippi is only generally
> true, not an absolute.  Here in Dallas we are very
> much west of the Mississippi.  Almost all of our
> stations are of the K*** variety, but one, the
> classical station I normally listen to is of the other
> variety -- WRR 101.1 The Classical One.  (It is indeed
> the one and only classical station within tuning
> distance of Dallas/Ft. Worth.)
First I've heard of anything different.  Maybe it's just a name and not
and actual call sign.  Interestingly when I lived in New Orleans, they
had stations with both W- and K- call signs depending upon which side of
the river they were on.  This applied to commercial radio and television
though.  Ham radio call signs use a different system and may also begin
with N- or A-.   The U.S. also separates the FM band in to commercial
(>92 MHz) and non-commercial (< 92 MHz).  Makes it easy to avoid all
those noisy and obnoxious commercial stations.

http://www.eham.net/newham/callsigns

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