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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)
W5RPI HAM
✅ Never issued — W5RPI 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.
The FCC has no record of W5RPI ever being issued.
W5RPI 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.
1974 → 1977 · 4 editions W5RPI · class A
· later W4MRJ
John J Ellis 5701 Deep Forest-#311 Winter 1974 p.360, Winter 1975 p.358, Winter 1976 p.366, Winter 1977 p.392
1974 · 1 edition W5RPI
· later WA6WDH
A Os 1974 p.333
1973 · 1 edition W5RPI · class A
John J Ellis 3600 Montrose-#1009, Houston 77006 Tx Winter 1973 p.361
1972 · 1 edition W5RPI · class A
John J Ellis 3b00 Montrose-#1009, Houston 7700b Tx Winter 1972 p.361
1971 · 1 edition W5RPI · class A
John J Ellis 3600 Montrose, Houston 77006 Tx Fall 1971 p.358
1971 · 1 edition W5RPI · class A
John J Ellis 3000 Montrose, Houston Winter 1971 p.357
1956 · 1 edition W5RPI
Frank W. Gallier 247 Mally Boulevard, San Antonio, TX Spring 1956 p.213
1952 → 1954 · 4 editions W5RPI
Frank W. G Allier 110-C Selfridge C T., San Antonio, T Exas Fall 1952 p.173, Fall 1953 p.177, Spring 1954 p.184, Fall 1954 p.181
1951 · 1 edition W5RPI
Frank W. Gallier 127 Elder Street, Biloxi, MS Spring 1951 p.162
None · 1 edition W5RPI · class A
John J Ellis 5701 Deep Forest-#311 None p.333