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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)
K8DOW HAM
✅ Never issued — K8DOW isn't in the FCC's public license data (which starts in 1999) or the 1993–2003 callbooks, and nothing in it blocks a vanity request. Calls like this are usually granted when requested.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
The FCC has no record of K8DOW ever being issued.
K8DOW 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.
1979 · 1 edition K8DOW · class G
Jam 0 Mc Laren 12815 Beacon Hill Or, Plvrnouth 1.11 48170 Grand Rapids, MI 49507 Winter 1979 p.346
1967 → 1973 · 2 editions K8DOW · class G
John O. Mc Laren 1008 Roosevelt, Plymouth Ml Fall 1967 p.495, Winter 1973 p.512
1966 · 1 edition K8DOW
Edward J. Storey 1500 Ne West St., Kake-Ty. Spring 1966 p.11
1965 · 1 edition K8DOW
Michael G. Holben.917 N.main North Canton 20 Ohio Summer 1965 p.455