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W8QAX HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 6, 2026.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Mar 6, 2026
Previous holder: LESTER J WALLINGA
Held W8QAX Feb 28, 1984 → Mar 5, 2024
· first licensed Feb 28, 1984 as W8QAX
· 1 license · FRN 0009715608 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1954 as W8QAX, before the FCC's online records
W8QAXExpiredGeneralFeb 28, 1984 → Mar 5, 2024 (expired)
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 May 3, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 18 discs W8QAX
· General · issued Jan 4, 1994, expires Jan 4, 2004
LESTER J. WALLINGA
7318 EDGEWOOD, JENISON, MI 49428
Seen Sep 9, 1993 · 1 disc W8QAX
· General · issued Feb 28, 1984, expires Feb 28, 1994
LESTER J WALLINGA
7318 EDGEWOOD, JENISON, MI 49428
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen May 27, 2010 → Oct 11, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as W8QAX
LESTER J WALLINGA
2741 CEDAR GROVE NORTH, JENISON, MI 49428
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.
1981 → 1990 · 4 editions W8QAX · class G
Lester J Wallinga 7318 Edgewood, Jenison, MI 49428 1981 p.901, Winter 1983 p.1044, Winter 1989 p.1151, Winter 1990 p.1172
1980 · 1 edition W8QAX · class G
Lester J Wallinga 731b Edgewood, Jenison Ml 49428 Winter 1980 p.963
1979 · 1 edition W8QAX · class G
Lester J Walfrlga 7318 Edqawood Av, Jenison, MI 49428 Winter 1979 p.396
1970 → 1978 · 7 editions W8QAX · class G
Lester J Wallinga 7318 Edgewood Av, Jenison Mi Spring 1970 p.538, Winter 1971 p.542, Fall 1971 p.542, Winter 1972 p.550, 1974 p.519, Winter 1976 p.548, Winter 1978 p.834
1969 · 1 edition W8QAX · class G
L E S T E R J . W A L L I N G A 7 3 1 8 Edgwood A V, J E N I S O N Mi Summer 1969 p.528
1967 · 1 edition W8QAX · class G
Lester J. Wallinga 7318 Eogwooo Av, Jenison Mi Fall 1967 p.525
1962 · 1 edition W8QAX
Lester J . Wall Inga Rfd L T Coopersville Fall 1962 p.483
1954 → 1959 · 6 editions W8QAX
Lester J. Wallinga Rfd 1, Cooper Sville, MI Fall 1954 p.275, Fall 1955 p.325, Spring 1956 p.321, Fall 1957 p.390, Summer 1958 p.403, Spring 1959 p.417
1940 → 1941 · 3 editions W8QAX
Harold P. Kost 50 Wohlers Av., Buffalo.n.y. Spring 1940 p.156, Winter 1941 p.168, Spring 1941 p.151
1939 · 1 edition W8QAX
Harold P. Kost 50 Wohkrs Av., Buffalo, NY Spring 1939 p.140
1938 · 2 editions W8QAX
Harold P. Kost 50 Wohlers Ay., Buffalo, NY Winter 1938 p.147, Spring 1938 p.141
None · 1 edition W8QAX · class G
Lester J Wallinga 7318 Edgewood, Jenison, MI 49428 None p.966
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8QAX in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8QAX beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.