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It only means that the station is licensed to transmit from a point in the USA.

Another one is the letter ' W '.

When the nations began to get together and agree on standards and practices for

radio communication, one of the things they did was to assign blocks of call letters

among the countries. For example, Mexico got 'X', Canada got 'C' for broadcast and

'VE' for other services, and the US got 'K' and 'W' for broadcast and 'N' and 'A' for

other services. (Nowadays, the same organization are the people deciding on how

digital cellular, WiFi, 3G, 4G, and LTE work.)

In general in the US, all the 'K's are west of the Mississippi and all the 'W's are east of it,

but there are exceptions.

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