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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)
W8GDE HAM
✅ Never issued — W8GDE 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 W8GDE ever being issued.
W8GDE 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.
1986 → 1988 · 2 editions W8GDE · class A
Ralph E Macy Pob 157, Rapid City So 57709 Nb T Ruth G Quint, 9545'montbrook Or, Afflon, MO 63113 Winter 1986 p.36, Winter 1988 p.37
1957 · 1 edition W8GDE
Richard B. Jeffrey Rfd 1, Nashport, OH Fall 1957 p.378
1951 → 1956 · 7 editions W8GDE
Dale E. Petty 1838 Harlan, T O L E D O, OH Spring 1951 p.221, Fall 1952 p.246, Fall 1953 p.254, Spring 1954 p.262, Fall 1954 p.262, Fall 1955 p.313, Spring 1956 p.308