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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)
W5VLV HAM
✅ Never issued — W5VLV 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 Mar 31, 2003 as choice 2:
not granted, that applicant got K5VLV instead.
The FCC has no record of W5VLV ever being issued.
W5VLV 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.
1979 → 1981 · 3 editions W5VLV · class A
Slave V Setar C/o Box 17486, Aum, TX 78760 Winter 1979 p.91, Winter 1980 p.632, 1981 p.568
1959 · 1 edition W5VLV
Chester W.thomas Jr 801 Caplin St, Houston 22 Texas Spring 1959 p.285
1958 · 1 edition W5VLV
Chester W. Thomas J R. 801 Caplin Street, Houston 22, TX Summer 1958 p.272
1957 · 1 edition W5VLV
Chester W . T H O M A S Jr. 801 Caplin Street, Houston22, TX Fall 1957 p.273
1954 → 1956 · 3 editions W5VLV
Chester W.thomas Jr. 1116| No.weisle St., Watonga, OK Fall 1954 p.186, Fall 1955 p.227, Spring 1956 p.217
1953 · 1 edition W5VLV
Chester W. Thomas Jr. 801 Caplin St., Houston 22, TX Fall 1953 p.183
1952 · 1 edition W5VLV
C Hester W. Thomas J R . 809 Galveston, Plainview, T Exas Fall 1952 p.180
1941 · 1 edition W5VLV
John T. Bowman 1923 Bnri:rh. Pa. Winter 1941 p.179
Others Requesting W5VLV
1 application listed W5VLV as a choice, newest first.