🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 27, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 am CDT
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)
K5HIV HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 7, 2023.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Last requested Feb 14, 2001 as choice 1:
granted.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Mar 7, 2023
Previous holder: Violet M Gentry
Held K5HIV Mar 6, 2001 → Mar 6, 2021
· first licensed Sep 7, 2000 as KB9WYM
· 2 licenses · FRN 0003902350 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1957 as K5HIV, before the FCC's online records
K5HIVExpiredTechnician · vanityMar 6, 2001 → Mar 6, 2021 (expired)
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 Apr 13, 2001 → Apr 17, 2003 · 5 discs K5HIV
· Technician · issued Mar 6, 2001, expires Mar 6, 2011
· previously KB9WYM
VIOLET M. . GENTRY .
RR1 BOX 82, TALLULA, IL 62688
Seen Oct 31, 2000 · 1 disc KB9WYM
· Technician · issued Sep 7, 2000, expires Sep 7, 2010
VIOLET M. . GENTRY .
RR1 BOX 82, TALLULA, IL 62688
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen May 27, 2010 → Oct 25, 2026 · 50 snapshots · as K5HIV
Violet M Gentry
15421 state highway 123, Tallula, IL 62688-9542
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.
1963 · 1 edition K5HIV
Jon Pa Gentry 135 Se Miller St, Vinita Okla Summer 1963 p.321
1961 · 2 editions K5HIV
Jon P. Gentry 135 S. Miller St, Vinita Spring 1961 p.302, Fall 1961 p.315
1959 → 1960 · 2 editions K5HIV
Jon P# Gentry 235 S# Miller St, Vinita Okla Spring 1959 p.258, Winter 1960 p.301
1957 → 1958 · 2 editions K5HIV
Jon P . Gentry 135 South M I L L E R Street, Vinita, OK Fall 1957 p.254, Summer 1958 p.247
Others Requesting K5HIV
1 application listed K5HIV as a choice, newest first.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K5HIV in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K5HIV beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.