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W8NVP HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — W8NVP was last held in the 1990s (license expired Mar 22, 1995), before the FCC's online records begin, so the two-year wait is long over. Confirm in the FCC's vanity system before applying.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not in the FCC's online records (1999 → now), but held before then: see below.
Held Before 1999
W8NVP in the 1993–2003 Callbooks
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.
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs W8NVP
· Advanced · issued Mar 22, 1985, expires Mar 22, 1995
LEWIS W GESELL
840 WOLVERINE AVE, MONROE, MI 48161
W8NVP 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.
1980 → 1991 · 5 editions W8NVP · class A
G Lewis W Gesell 840 Wolverine Ave, Monroe, MI 48161 Winter 1980 p.954, 1981 p.893, Winter 1982 p.1003, Winter 1983 p.1033, Winter 1991 p.1265
1979 · 1 edition W8NVP
G Lew~ W Gesell 840 Wolveme Av, Monroe, MI 48161 Winter 1979 p.387
1971 → 1978 · 6 editions W8NVP · class G
G Lewis W Gesell 840 Wolverine Av, Monroe Winter 1971 p.538, Fall 1971 p.538, Winter 1972 p.546, 1974 p.512, Winter 1976 p.543, Winter 1978 p.827
1969 · 1 edition W8NVP · class G
L E W I S W. G E S E L L 8 4 0 Wolverine A V, Monroe Summer 1969 p.523
1966 · 1 edition W8NVP
Lewis W. Ges~ll 840 Wolverine Avo Monroe Mich Spring 1966 p.481
1965 · 1 edition W8NVP
Lewis ... Gesell. E.o Wolverine Av Monroe Mich Summer 1965 p.480
1963 · 1 edition W8NVP
Lewis Wt. Gesell 840 Wolverine Av1 Monroe Mich Summer 1963 p.500
1962 · 1 edition W8NVP
Lewis W Gesell, 840 Wolverine Av, Monroe Mich Fall 1962 p.478
1954 → 1961 · 8 editions W8NVP
Lewis W. Gesell 840 Wolverine Ave., Monroe, MI Fall 1954 p.271, Fall 1955 p.322, Spring 1956 p.318, Fall 1957 p.387, Summer 1958 p.400, Spring 1959 p.414, Spring 1961 p.472, Fall 1961 p.492