N9TPB FCC License Search

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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)

KA4DES HAM

✅ Never issued — KA4DES 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.

2x3 call: any licensee can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Nov 26, 2019 as choice 4: not granted, that applicant got W4DES instead.

The FCC has no record of KA4DES ever being issued.

KA4DES 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.

1983 · 1 edition
KA4DES · class N
Earl A Payne
424 Madison Or, Gadsden, AL 35904
Winter 1983 p.419
None → 1982 · 4 editions
KA4DES · class N
Earl A Payne
424 Madison Cir, Gadsden, AL 35904
None p.344, Winter 1979 p.378, 1981 p.328, Winter 1982 p.406

Others Requesting KA4DES

1 application listed KA4DES as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	KA4DES	Result
Nov 26, 2019	Dec 14, 2019	KO4AET · Donald E Smith Sr · Fort Pierce, FL	4	Not granted	They got W4DES (choice 1)