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[[File:President Harding giving radio speech on May 18, 1922.jpg|thumb|right|275px|President Harding gave the first presidential speech to be carried by radio on May 18, 1922 over NOF, speaking before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Washington, D.C.<ref name="first">[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058226/1922-05-23/ed-1/seq-1/ "Radio Broadcasts President Harding's Speech Praising Merchant Marine"], ''The Richmond (Indiana) Palladium'', May 23, 1922, page 1 (chroniclingamerica.loc.gov)</ref>]]
'''NOF''' was one of the call signs used in the 1920s by a radio station located at the [[Naval Support Facility Anacostia|Naval Air Station]] in Anacostia, D.C. This call sign was used when the station was making general and experimental broadcasts, while the call sign NSF was generally used when the station was conducting regular business. From 1920 to 1922 the Anacostia station was the primary radio outlet employed by the U.S. government for making public broadcasts. However, in early 1923 responsibility for these programs was transferred to station [[NAA (Arlington, Virginia)|NAA]] in Arlington, Virginia, and the Anacostia station returned to generally being used for research, thus primarily using the NSF call sign. However, a few public demonstrations, most notably Charles Jenkins' mid-1920s television experiments, were later conducted under the NOF call sign.
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