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W8PGE HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — W8PGE was last held in the 1990s (license expired Mar 11, 1996), 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
W8PGE 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 → Nov 11, 1998 · 10 discs W8PGE
· Advanced · issued Mar 11, 1986, expires Mar 11, 1996
CHARLES R HOUSTON
4200 DELMONT RD SW RR 9, LANCASTER, OH 43130
W8PGE 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.
1994 · 1 edition W8PGE
Charles R Houston Silent Key Winter 1994 p.1519
1981 → 1992 · 7 editions W8PGE · class A
Charles R Houston 4200 Delmont Rd Sw, Lancaster 1981 p.898, Winter 1982 p.1009, Winter 1983 p.1041, Winter 1986 p.1079, Winter 1990 p.1169, Winter 1991 p.1271, 1992 p.1326
1980 · 1 edition W8PGE · class A
Charles R Houston 4100 Delmont Rd Sw, Lancaster, OH 43130 Winter 1980 p.960
1979 · 1 edition W8PGE · class A
Charles R Houston 4200 Delmont Ad Sw, Lancaster, OH 43130 Winter 1979 p.393
1969 → 1977 · 9 editions W8PGE · class A
C H A R L E S R . Houston Rfd 6, Lancaster Summer 1969 p.526, Fall 1969 p.526, Winter 1971 p.541, Winter 1972 p.549, Winter 1973 p.549, 1974 p.516, Winter 1975 p.539, Winter 1976 p.546, Winter 1977 p.594
1964 · 1 edition W8PGE · class C
H A R L E S R. H O U S T O N 3 1 6 E . S I X T H A V . L A N C A S T E R Ohio W 8 P M A R O B E R T C. H O V E R, 4 2 0 E, 2 7 2 N D St. E U C L I D 3 2 Ohio Fall 1964 p.473
1962 → 1963 · 2 editions W8PGE
Charles R. Houston 316 E.sixth Av, Lancaster Ohio Fall 1962 p.481, Summer 1963 p.503
1961 · 1 edition W8PGE
Charles -R Houston, 316 Eeslxth Av, Lancaster Ohio Fall 1961 p.495
1960 → 1961 · 2 editions W8PGE
Charles Re Houston 316 Eesixth Av, Lancaster Ohio Winter 1960 p.474, Spring 1961 p.475
1957 → 1959 · 3 editions W8PGE
Charles R. Houston 316 East Sixth Ave., Lancaster, OH Fall 1957 p.389, Summer 1958 p.402, Spring 1959 p.416
1952 → 1956 · 6 editions W8PGE
C Harles R . Houston Rfd 3, L Ancaster, OH Fall 1952 p.255, Fall 1953 p.265, Spring 1954 p.274, Fall 1954 p.274, Fall 1955 p.324, Spring 1956 p.320
1950 → 1951 · 2 editions W8PGE
Charles R. Houston 728 E. Main St., Lancaster Summer 1950 p.192, Spring 1951 p.226
1949 · 1 edition W8PGE
Charles R Houston, 726 E, Main St., Lancaster, OH Summer 1949 p.184
1948 · 1 edition W8PGE
Charles R. Houston 728 E. Main St., Lancaster, OH Fall 1948 p.192
1947 · 1 edition W8PGE
C. R. Houston 728 E. Main, Lancaster, Ohio. W 8 P P N — W M . E. Peterson, R, 2. Manistee, MI Fall 1947 p.170
1941 · 1 edition W8PGE
Charles R. Houston 140 W. Fair Av., Lan- W8pl.t—wm. H. Keidel, 277 Lisbon Av., Buffalo.n.y. Spring 1941 p.150
1941 · 1 edition W8PGE
Charles R. Houston 140 W. Fair Av., Lan· Winter 1941 p.166
None → 1940 · 5 editions W8PGE · class A
Charles R Houston 221 Wyandotte St., Lan- None p.516, Spring 1938 p.139, Spring 1939 p.138, Spring 1940 p.155, Fall 1940 p.145