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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)
W8RPI HAM
✅ Never issued — W8RPI 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.
The FCC has no record of W8RPI ever being issued.
W8RPI 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.
1954 → 1959 · 6 editions W8RPI
Paul H. Voorheis 8917 Meyers Road, Detroit 28, MI Fall 1954 p.277, Fall 1955 p.327, Spring 1956 p.323, Fall 1957 p.392, Summer 1958 p.405, Spring 1959 p.418
1940 → 1946 · 3 editions W8RPI
Genevieve M. Wagner 2037 London Sq., To- Spring 1940 p.159, Spring 1941 p.154, Summer 1946 p.163
1933 · 1 edition W8RPI
G. M. Maines 714 Conn. Av., \vellston, OH Spring 1933 p.97