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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)
W8WED HAM
✅ Never issued — W8WED 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 W8WED ever being issued.
W8WED 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.
1985 · 1 edition W8WED · class N
Frederick J Sc Wart2kopf 5bb Deaver Rd, Columbus, IN 47101 Winter 1985 p.1216
1957 → 1959 · 3 editions W8WED
Richard F. Reynolds Rfd 4, Box 720, Battle Creek, MI Fall 1957 p.397, Summer 1958 p.410, Spring 1959 p.424
1956 · 1 edition W8WED
Richard F. Reynolds Rfd 2, Box 38, Marshall, MI Spring 1956 p.329
1955 · 1 edition W8WED
Richard F. Reynolds Rfd 1, Dowling, MI Fall 1955 p.334
1941 → 1947 · 2 editions W8WED
Ronald F. Craigo Putney, WV Winter 1941 p.180, Fall 1947 p.176