[BC] Re: Call-letter curiosities

[PeterH5322@aol.com]

>Wonder why so many three letter stations began with "WH."  
>WHA, WHB, WHK, WHN, WHO, WHP.  A few with "WI" too, WIL, WIP 
>and WIS.

The same reason there are so many KG- three-letter calls in the western 
states and the territories of the Pacific: assigned by sequence, within 
that region for which that call letter sequence was designated:

KGA - Spokane, WA
KGB - San Diego, CA
KGO - now San Francisco (originally Oakland), CA
KGU - Honolulu, HI (originally a territory)
KGW - Portland, OR
KGY - now Olympia (originally Lacy), WA

(Notice that KOA and KOB are in the same region. In adjoining states, too).