🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 15, 2026) · next update today 9:45 am CDT
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)
W5VNF HAM
👀 Looked up 2 times by 2 different people on this site
✅ Never issued — W5VNF 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.
1 pending application already lists it (first filed Oct 6, 2026) — see requests.
The FCC has no record of W5VNF ever being issued.
W5VNF 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.
1997 · 1 edition W5VNF · class P
Bernard J Downs. Rr L Box 91 Hide-Away Hills 1997 p.1808
1982 · 1 edition W5VNF · class T
Bernard J Downs 334a South Ashburton, Columbus, OH 43213 Winter 1982 p.1027
1979 → 1981 · 3 editions W5VNF · class A
Russel W Cook 802 Daventry Dr, Gartand, TX 75040 Winter 1979 p.91, Winter 1980 p.632, 1981 p.568
1960 · 1 edition W5VNF
Bernard Je Downs 3361 Maryland Av, Columbus Ohio Winter 1960 p.489
1941 · 1 edition W5VNF
K. D. Cox 1511 Kenova Av., Cincinnati, OH Winter 1941 p.179
Others Requesting W5VNF
1 application listed W5VNF as a choice, newest first.