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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)
KA8DBO HAM
✅ Never issued — KA8DBO 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.
The FCC has no record of KA8DBO ever being issued.
KA8DBO 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.
1987 · 1 edition KA8DBO · class N
Elmer R Van De Loo 1815 E 31th Street, Minnea~olis, MN 55406 Winter 1987 p.18
1986 · 1 edition KA8DBO · class N
Elmer R Van De Loo 2bl5 E 31th Treet, Minnea~olis Mn 5540b Winter 1986 p.19
1982 · 1 edition KA8DBO · class T
Ralph J Unterborn S72 West Whipp Rd, Dayton, OH 45459 Winter 1982 p.949
None → 1981 · 2 editions KA8DBO · class T
Ralph J Unterborn 572 West Whipp Rd, Dayton None p.901, 1981 p.843