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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)
W8IRU HAM
✅ Never issued — W8IRU 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 W8IRU ever being issued.
W8IRU 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.
1983 · 1 edition W8IRU · class T
Norman J Kapson 174 Mill, Ortonville, MI 48462 Winter 1983 p.1006
1981 → 1982 · 2 editions W8IRU · class T
Norman J Kapson 174 Mill, Ortonville. . -I., |, MI 48462 Winter 1981 p.941, Winter 1982 p.975
1979 · 1 edition W8IRU · class T
Norman J Ka~son 174 Mil. Ortoovllie, 1.11 48462 Winter 1979 p.363
1973 → 1977 · 5 editions W8IRU · class T
Norman J Kapson 174 Mill, Ortonville 48462 Mi Winter 1973 p.527, 1974 p.496, Winter 1975 p.521, Winter 1976 p.530, Winter 1977 p.578
1971 → 1972 · 2 editions W8IRU · class T
Norman J. Kapson 174 Mil!, Ortonville 48461 Ml Fall 1971 p.524, Winter 1972 p.527
1969 · 1 edition W8IRU · class T
Norman J . Kap Son 174 M I L L - B O X 2 5 5 .ortonvi L L E Mi Summer 1969 p.512