N9TPB FCC License Search
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W3YAH HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 26, 2024.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jun 17, 2024 as choice 4: not granted, that applicant got W3POW instead.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Jun 26, 2024

Previous holder: ELMER R BOYER JR

Held W3YAH Sep 6, 1988 → Jun 25, 2022 · first licensed Sep 6, 1988 as W3YAH · 2 licenses · FRN 0004000691
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1954 as W3YAH, before the FCC's online records

Callbook Records, 1993–2003
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Previous holder: ELMER R BOYER

Held W3YAH Sep 6, 1988 → Apr 21, 2002 · first licensed Sep 6, 1988 as W3YAH · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1954 as W3YAH, before the FCC's online records

Callbook Records, 1993–2003
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Earlier Holders

W3YAH in the 1993–2003 Callbooks
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
W3YAH 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.

Others Requesting W3YAH

2 applications listed W3YAH as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W3YAHResult
Jun 17, 2024 Jul 5, 2024 KC3ANX · Timothy J Costello · Finleyville, PA 4Not granted They got W3POW (choice 1)
Jun 6, 2002 Jun 24, 2002 KD3UJ · ELMER R BOYER JR · MILFORD, DE 1Granted Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W3YAH in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W3YAH beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.