I Think of Many Things

Three letter call signs were used in the early days of ship wireless, even before stations had started broadcasting for the public's entertainment.

Even though I wasn't around then, I like to take the antique ideas of early radio and use some of them. I haven't used a 3 letter call sign, but do have low power like early stations, and think about DX (distant listening) a lot.

I got serious about home radio in high school, better than doing home work after all. It was AM back then, 1580. When I'd put a long recording on and go for range checks by walking the streets, I noticed something: The good coverage radius was a certain distance, and at some distance the signal would kind of 'switch over' to a distant sounding signal.

I thought I'd walk a little more and the signal would be in the dust after that, but no, that weak signal held on farther than I would have thought, and doing strong and distant circles on a map, the distant signal covered many, many times the area of the strong signal.

That gave me an idea, since most listeners would be listening at the distant signal strength, and that I broadcast at night, the station would come to you on the night wave, from nowhere in particular, not mentioning any city or town, universal radio. The only concession to that was using the time within my time zone.

I thought of people listening and wondering what city the station was from, and why some nights they'd hear it and some nights not, like it had faded out, a nice element of mystery.

You could also use WDX, since I see that your city has a mix of 'K' and 'W' call signs.

Boomer