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Radio Station Letterheads and QSL Cards-Page 6 |
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The "EKKO" company capitalized on the radio craze in the 1920's by creating a series of "Verified Reception Stamps". Each participating radio station in the US and Canada (about 800 in 1927) had its own stamp. The US stamps had eagles (above), and the Canadian stamps had beavers (right). Listeners could send reception reports to the station, with the card shown below (and one thin dime), and the station would send an EKKO stamp back to the listener. Collecting EKKO stamps was a popular fad in the mid to late 1920's, but by the mid 1930's, this phenomenon had just about run its course. |
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KMOX Letterhead (1090 kHz 5 KW), St. Louis, MO 1930 |
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| To the right is a KMOX
reception stamp, made of gum-backed foil, about 1 by 1 1/2 inches.
Though hard to make out, it features the slogan "Capital of the
49th State". Of course, there were only 48 states then! Below is a radio map of the US as distributed by
KMOX. It shows the locations of all of the CBS network radio
stations. Political correctness was not a factor in 1930, it would
seem.
Click here (or on the map) to see a much larger version. |
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WPTF Letterhead (680 kHz, 10 KW), Raleigh, NC, 1934 |
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CKGW QSL Card (960 kHz, 5 KW), Toronto, Canada, 1929 |
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WTFI QSL Card (1450 kHz, 500 W), Athens, GA, 1934 |
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CFRB QSL Card (960 kHz, 4 KW), Toronto, Canada, 1929 |
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WFDV QSL Card (1500 kHz), Rome, GA, 1933 |
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WOAI QSL Card (1190 kHz, 50 KW), San Antonio, TX, circa 1930 |
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Image from address side of WOAI QSL card |
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WTMJ QSL Card (620 kHz, 1 KW), Brookfield, WI, 1930 |
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WTNT Letterhead (1490 kHz, 5 KW), Nashville, TN 1929 |
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