[CQ-Contest] 4-digit CK's?

[Michael Keane K1MK]

On 11/20/2008 8:33 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:

> First:
> The US Department of Commerce didn't start issuing Amateur Radio licenses
> until 1912.
> 
> So even though there are a handful of stations that first went on the air in
> 1909 (W1MX (1XM) MIT and K3CR (8XE) Penn State to name two), they weren't
> first LICENSED until 1912.

It was the US Department of Commerce and Labor at that time. The split 
into separate Departments of Commerce and Labor came shortly thereafter 
in 1913.

The 1912 Act to regulate radio communications did not take effect until 
December 13, 1912. Relatively few licenses would have been issued in 
those last two weeks of 1912. 1913 is much more likely to have been the 
year first licensed.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George 
Santayana

73,
Mike K1MK