2020 is broadcast pioneer KDKA’s 100th anniversary. To celebrate this great milestone there will be a month-long special event operation put on by multiple Western PA clubs! Look for special callsigns K3A, K3D and K3K. Also, look for special callsign W8XK – KDKA’s callsign (then 8XK) before it was KDKA!
There will be portable operations from Saxonburg, PA, where it all started (*). Operators will be operating right next to one of the original tower piers!
There are great special QSL cards and a certificate if you work all four callsigns. QSL information will be posted on the respective callsign QRZ pages.
(courtesy of Bob WC3O)
(*) KDKA, as 8ZZ, first broadcast from the Westinghouse facility in East Pittsburgh, PA, in November 1920. The Saxonburg site was the first 'permanent' KDKA broadcast & shortwave location for decades afterwards.