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The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the United States. ARRL is a non-profit organization and was co-founded on April 6, 1914, by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska of Hartford, Connecticut.
Call sign information for U.S. stations are set out in chapter I of the FCC rules, Title 47 (Telecommunication) of the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.): 47 CFR 2.302: General overview of call sign assignments, including a detailed summary of standards and practices for various license classes.
Following is a list of FCC-licensed community radio stations in the United States, including both full-power and low-power non-commercial educational services. The list is divided into two sections: The list is divided into two sections:
The call sign format for radio and television call signs follows a number of conventions. All call signs begin with a prefix assigned by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). For example, the United States has been assigned the following prefixes: AAA – ALZ , K , N , W .
Down Home Broadcasting: Urban gospel WYZK-LP: 98.3 FM: Hartselle: Association for Social Justice in Morgan County: Variety WZAL-LP: 99.9 FM: Alabaster: Alabaster Broadcasting and Community Radio: Variety WZBQ: 94.1 FM: Carrollton: iHM Licenses, LLC: Top 40 (CHR) WZDK-LP: 98.5 FM: Decatur: North Alabama Youth Sports Association: Bluegrass WZEV ...
Callbooks have evolved to include on-line databases that are accessible via the Internet to instantly obtain the address of another amateur radio operator and their QSL Managers. The most well known and used on-line QSL databases include QRZ.COM, [ 6 ] IK3QAR, [ 7 ] HamCall, [ 8 ] F6CYV, [ 9 ] DXInfo, [ 10 ] OZ7C [ 11 ] and QSLInfo.
Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).
Since then, three-letter calls have only been assigned to stations, including FM (beginning in 1943) [1] and TV (beginning in 1946), [2] which are historically related to an AM station that was originally issued that call sign. This review only includes FCC-licensed stations.