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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)
W8LWN HAM
✅ Never issued — W8LWN 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 W8LWN ever being issued.
W8LWN 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.
1977 → 1980 · 3 editions W8LWN · class A
· later N9AOE
Gerald A Oefelein 5407 Edgalawn 5e, Kentwood, MI 49508 Winter 1977 p.586, Winter 1979 p.378, Winter 1980 p.945
1953 → 1954 · 2 editions W8LWN
Milo Ler. Seccomb Jr. 629 East Jefferson Street Fall 1953 p.262, Spring 1954 p.269
1941 → 1952 · 2 editions W8LWN
Leroy M. Seccomb Jr.. R 1, Skaneateles. Ter, NY Spring 1941 p.144, Fall 1952 p.253
1941 · 1 edition W8LWN
Leroy M. Seccomb Jr .. R. L Skaneateles, W8~1cd-M. Y. Labarre, 13975 Woodbine, Detroit, Micb., ~~rnri-1.r0n', Th~~ns~nw~t~~ef~~ 2 ~\-Rig~itf.i~.u~~lki~: Winter 1941 p.161
1940 · 1 edition W8LWN
Leroy M. Seccomb Jr.. R 1, Skaneateles Fall 1940 p.139
1938 · 1 edition W8LWN
Leroy M. Seccomb Jr. R, 1, Skaneateles Spring 1938 p.131
1938 · 1 edition W8LWN
Leroy 111. Seccomb Jr. R. L, Skaneateles Winter 1938 p.138