Re: [sme2] 1938 radio rollcall - FDNY fire boats

The radio test finishes with this statement from the dispatcher.

" This is station WNYF , the radio alarm system of the New York Fire
Department, operating on a frequency of 16 hundred 30 kilocycles,
Dispatcher 53 signing off "

I suspect that many members of the public would listen to this radio
channel since it was in (or adjacent to) the AM broadcast band

In any case, the call sign and radio frequency were not considered to
be top secret - obviously - since they were mentioned right in the
radio test

keywords - openness - live scanner audio

Presently - it is common in the Boston MA area to include a similar
message as part of a (daily or weekly) fire radio test - " this is
station XXX operating on a frequency of XXXX under the authority of
the Federal Communication Commission " - which possibly gives us a
hint as to where this message format came from - perhaps the FCC
recommended it at some point - possibly in the 1930s.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:12 PM Peter Sz via Groups.Io
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