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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)
W5VKD HAM
✅ Never issued — W5VKD 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 W5VKD ever being issued.
W5VKD 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.
1982 · 1 edition W5VKD · class G
Robert L Shellman 471 Longview Hgts, Athens, OH 45701 Winter 1982 p.1027
1971 · 1 edition W5VKD · class G
Robert L Shellman Rfd 4, Athens 45701 Oh Fall 1971 p.553
1952 → 1955 · 5 editions W5VKD
Edgar D. Wippermann 4008 So. Jackson, A M Arillo, T Exas Fall 1952 p.180, Fall 1953 p.183, Spring 1954 p.190, Fall 1954 p.186, Fall 1955 p.227
1941 · 1 edition W5VKD
Peter Trbovich.ccc Co. Camp Np-7 Pavia, PA Winter 1941 p.178