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Ask: HAMs within 5 miles of N9TPB · Extra class operators in Madison, WI · or try N9TPB · K9* wildcards · Smith, John · 0004797601 (FRN) · 53703 · Madison, WI · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
AB6WD HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — AB6WD was last held in the 1990s (license expired Sep 14, 2003), before the FCC's online records begin, so the two-year wait is long over. Confirm in the FCC's vanity system before applying.
2x2 call: only Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not in the FCC's online records (1999 → now), but held before then: see below.
Held Before 1999
AB6WD in the 1993–2003 Callbooks
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 27, 1996 · 7 discs AB6WD
· Amateur Extra · issued Sep 14, 1993, expires Sep 14, 2003
· previously WA4DNB(Advanced)
JOSEPH M GANG JR
13760 LEXINGTON CT, SARATOGA, CA 95070
AB6WD in the Printed Callbooks, 1909–1997
From scanned copies of the printed callbooks (government lists from 1913, then the Radio Amateur Callbook to 1997), read by OCR, so names and streets can carry typos. Each line is one or more editions in a row showing the same name at the same address.
1995 → 1997 · 2 editions AB6WD · class E
Joseph M Gang Jr 13760 Lexington Ct, Saratoga, CA 95070 1995 p.1343, 1997 p.1425