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)

W5OBS HAM

✅ Never issued — W5OBS 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 May 9, 2008 as choice 3: not granted, that applicant got K5OBS instead.
The FCC has no record of W5OBS ever being issued.
W5OBS 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 W5OBS

1 application listed W5OBS as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W5OBSResult
May 9, 2008 May 27, 2008 KE5UMN · Bill E Swanson · Allen, TX 3Not granted They got K5OBS (choice 1)