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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)
KB8GCS HAM
✅ Never issued — KB8GCS 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 KB8GCS ever being issued.
KB8GCS 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.
1991 → 1992 · 2 editions KB8GCS · class N
Chris J Beason 1b07 Brookside Dr, Cedar Falls Ia 50blj ~ Ra1~ide Ck~~~, '.rri 1 Ta ~i1fu! 0 Tt 1 F:.~:et1~y, IA 51027 Winter 1991 p.43, 1992 p.39
1990 · 1 edition KB8GCS · class T
John T Colburn Sr 302 S Main St, Swanton, OH 43558 Winter 1990 p.1124