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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)
W3HFS HAM
✅ Never issued — W3HFS 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 W3HFS ever being issued.
W3HFS 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.
1971 → 1975 · 5 editions W3HFS · class A
· later K2YEF
Earle R Adams 450 Domino Ln, Philadelphia 19128 _pa Winter 1971 p.188, Fall 1971 p.190, Winter 1972 p.190, 1974 p.163, Winter 1975 p.185
1948 · 1 edition W3HFS
Harry E. Christenson 408 W. Sola St., Santa Baibara Fall 1948 p.151
1938 → 1946 · 6 editions W3HFS
E. R. Adams Jr. 22 Weauseon, Clementon.n.j. Spring 1938 p.51, Spring 1939 p.51, Spring 1940 p.63, Fall 1940 p.52, Winter 1941 p.64, Summer 1946 p.67
None · 1 edition W3HFS · class A
Earle R Adams 450 Domino Ln, Philadelphia 19128 None p.163