Hundreds of call signs may be seen at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. Source: Carrie Kennedy The origin of aviator call signs is murky, even to military historians. But all agree ...

It’s Top Gun: Maverick Week here at For The Win, where we’ve taken to the skies for five days of content to celebrate the premiere of the sequel to 1986's iconic ode to naval aviation. Strap in for a ...

AI is currently popular, so [Chirs Lam] figured he’d stimulate some interest in amateur radio by using it to pull call signs from radio signals processed using SDR. As you’ll see, the AI did just okay ...

Call signs have a bawdy and storied history among Navy fighter pilots, and they've become part of Topgun's lore, too. Cool nicknames like "Maverick" and "Iceman" — prominent in the 1986 movie "Top Gun ...

The use of call signs goes back to 1912, when each nation was assigned a letter or group of letters for radio stations at the International Radiotelegraph Conference, held in London. The US was ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Chris Kibble, former F-16 pilot (11 years): Bottom line up front (or BLUF): U.S. Air Force fighter call signs are given at naming ceremonies or ...

A collage of radio station stickers. Read our 2015 story about this collection. A radio commercial marketer, a youth broadcasting nonprofit and a children’s sleeping advocacy group are all part of the ...