N9TPB FCC License Search
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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)

W5ISM HAM

✅ Never issued — W5ISM 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 Aug 29, 2008 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got K5MXQ instead.
The FCC has no record of W5ISM ever being issued.
W5ISM 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 W5ISM

1 application listed W5ISM as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W5ISMResult
Aug 29, 2008 Sep 16, 2008 KE5WCZ · William H Pace · Albuquerque, NM 2Not granted They got K5MXQ (choice 1)