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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)
W5ILG HAM
✅ Never issued — W5ILG 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.
Last requested Jun 29, 2007 as choice 2:
not granted, that applicant got K9ILG instead.
The FCC has no record of W5ILG ever being issued.
W5ILG 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.
1986 · 1 edition W5ILG · class A
Harold A Smith Ill Kim Dr, Zephyrhills, FL 34249 Winter 1986 p.1047
1968 · 1 edition W5ILG · class A
Joe J. Breithaupt 1822 Plymouth Dr, Irving Tx Spring 1968 p.337
1967 · 1 edition W5ILG · class A
Joe J. Breithaupt 1~22 Plymouth Or, Irving Tx Fall 1967 p.333