N9TPB FCC License Search
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W8GHS HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 10, 2025.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jun 20, 2003 as choice 1: granted.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Jul 10, 2025

Previous holder: GREENHILLS H S ALUMNI ARC

Held W8GHS Jul 9, 2003 → Jul 9, 2023 · first licensed May 26, 1992 as WB8RSR · 2 licenses · FRN 0007666522

Callbook Records, 1993–2003
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Previous holder: ROYCE A SMELSER

Held W8GHS Apr 26, 1988 → Jun 14, 2001 · first licensed Apr 26, 1988 as W8GHS · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1953 as W8GHS, before the FCC's online records

Callbook Records, 1993–2003
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
W8GHS 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.

Others Requesting W8GHS

1 application listed W8GHS as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W8GHSResult
Jun 20, 2003 Jul 8, 2003 WB8RSR · GREENHILLS H S ALUMNI ARC · Menomonie, WI 1Granted Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8GHS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8GHS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.