N9TPB FCC License Search
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W5IOF HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 10, 2022.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Feb 17, 2010 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Mar 10, 2022

Previous holder: THERAN L EBNER

Held W5IOF Mar 9, 2010 → Mar 9, 2020 · first licensed Oct 28, 1986 as KB5ARU · 2 licenses · FRN 0013859061
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1940 as W5IOF, 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: JOHN R WHITE SR

Held W5IOF Aug 31, 1984 → May 31, 2004 · first licensed Aug 31, 1984 as W5IOF · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1955 as W5IOF, 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.
W5IOF 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 W5IOF

2 applications listed W5IOF as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W5IOFResult
Feb 17, 2010 Mar 7, 2010 KB5ARU · THERAN L EBNER · HOUSTON, TX 1Granted Granted this call
Aug 8, 2005 Aug 26, 2005 KB5ARU · THERAN L EBNER · HOUSTON, TX 1Dismissed Application dismissed

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5IOF in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5IOF beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.