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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)
W8RFT HAM
✅ Never issued — W8RFT 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.
Last requested Dec 17, 2020 as choice 3:
not granted, that applicant got W9RFT instead.
The FCC has no record of W8RFT ever being issued.
W8RFT 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.
1979 · 1 edition W8RFT
A Arn~ Medl.y 919 Hickory St, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Winter 1979 p.205
1938 → 1947 · 6 editions W8RFT
Garnette P. Hiles Nellis, W. Va. St., Williamspart, PA Spring 1938 p.143, Spring 1939 p.142, Spring 1940 p.158, Spring 1941 p.153, Summer 1946 p.163, Fall 1947 p.171
Others Requesting W8RFT
1 application listed W8RFT as a choice, newest first.