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In January of 1915 we first see a listing in the Radio Service Bulletin , Bureau of Navigation, Department of Commerceof a station WCI in Newport, Rhode Island. It is listed as a Fessenden transmitter, 260 watts. ![]() Radio Service Bulletin Bureau of Navigation Department of Commerce January 1915 No1 Also in the same publication we see that the station charges for Radiograms which points to it being a commercial station and not a Navy installation. ![]() Radio Service Bulletin Bureau of Navigation Department of Commerce January 1915 No1 In 1916 we see a listing for WCI in the another issue from the Depstrment of Commerce that ties the station to the Nation Electric Signaling Company, which was a Fessenden company at the time. ![]() Radio Service Bulletin Bureau of Navigation Department of Commerce September 1, 1915 No21 In the October 1, 1916 publication from the Department of Commerce has a listing for the station again ![]() Radio Service Bulletin Bureau of Navigation Department of Commerce October 1, 1916 No22 In 1919 the station is still there judging by a advertisment for the International Radio Telegraph Company, which was the company that emerged from the National Electric Signaling Company after it went into receivership. 1 Also in 1919 there is a mention of the station in a account of the routine experience of a radio telegrapher on shipboard in the year 1919 on a trip from New York to Denmark and return. The article was written by Donald McNocol. ![]() Commercial Radio November 12, 1932 (1919) In 1922 we see that the station is still there, this time controlled by the Radio Corporation which I believe is RCA. ![]() World Wide Wireless Volume 2 Jan-Dec 1922 1 Reginald Fessenden |