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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)
W8ILR HAM
✅ Never issued — W8ILR 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 W8ILR ever being issued.
W8ILR 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.
1991 · 1 edition W8ILR · class A
Floyd D Craig 1431 Bross St. Longmont, CO 80501 Winter 1991 p.57
1989 · 1 edition W8ILR · class G
Gregory M Becker 9811 Calle Solano, Tucson, AZ 85737 Winter 1989 p.62
1957 → 1959 · 3 editions W8ILR
Lewis C. Litzenberg Rfd, Sprague Road Fall 1957 p.381, Summer 1958 p.392, Spring 1959 p.400
1952 → 1956 · 6 editions W8ILR
Lewis C . Litzenberg Rfd 2, Columbia Station, OH Fall 1952 p.249, Fall 1953 p.257, Spring 1954 p.265, Fall 1954 p.265, Fall 1955 p.315, Spring 1956 p.312
1948 → 1951 · 4 editions W8ILR
Lewis Litzenberg Rfd 2, Sprague Rd., Columbia St’n., OH Fall 1948 p.189, Summer 1949 p.181, Summer 1950 p.188, Spring 1951 p.222
1935 → 1947 · 7 editions W8ILR
L. C. Litzenberg R F D 2, Columbia Stn., O. Spring 1935 p.159, Spring 1936 p.258, Spring 1938 p.126, Spring 1940 p.144, Fall 1940 p.135, Summer 1946 p.150, Fall 1947 p.165