🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 2, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 am CST
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)
W8QYW HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Oct 4, 2000.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Last requested Nov 28, 2016 as choice 4:
not granted, that applicant got K8WQY instead.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Oct 4, 2000
Previous holder: HOMER D COZAD
Held W8QYW Jan 22, 1998 → Oct 3, 1998
· first licensed Dec 8, 1992 as WB8WBQ
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1937 as W8QYW, before the FCC's online records
W8QYWCanceledAdvanced · vanityJan 22, 1998 → Oct 3, 1998 (canceled)
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 Mar 9, 1998 → Nov 11, 1998 · 2 discs W8QYW
· Advanced · issued Jan 22, 1998, expires Jan 22, 2008
· previously WB8WBQ(General)
HOMER D COZAD
285 S BROADWAY, GENEVA, OH 44041
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs WB8WBQ
· Advanced · issued Dec 8, 1992, expires Dec 8, 2002
HOMER D COZAD
285 S BROADWAY, GENEVA, OH 44041
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Nov 1, 2026 · 52 snapshots · as W8QYW
HOMER D COZAD
285 S BROADWAY, GENEVA, OH 44041
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.
1955 → 1956 · 2 editions W8QYW
Homer D. Cozad 285 South Broadway, Geneva, OH Fall 1955 p.326, Spring 1956 p.322
1950 → 1954 · 5 editions W8QYW
Homer D. Cozad 285 S. Broadway, Geneva Summer 1950 p.193, Spring 1951 p.227, Fall 1953 p.266, Spring 1954 p.276, Fall 1954 p.276
1949 · 1 edition W8QYW
Homer D. Cozad 285 S C Broadway, Geneva, OH Summer 1949 p.185
1940 → 1948 · 5 editions W8QYW
Homer D. Cozad 285 S. Broadway, Geneva Spring 1940 p.158, Fall 1940 p.148, Spring 1941 p.153, Summer 1946 p.162, Fall 1948 p.193
1937 → 1939 · 2 editions W8QYW
H. D. Cozad 562 N. Broadway, Geneva, OH Fall 1937 p.149, Spring 1939 p.142
Others Requesting W8QYW
1 application listed W8QYW as a choice, newest first.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8QYW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8QYW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.