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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)
W9VLS HAM
✅ Never issued — W9VLS 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 14, 2009 as choice 2:
not granted, that applicant got K9VLS instead.
The FCC has no record of W9VLS ever being issued.
W9VLS 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.
1962 → 1976 · 11 editions W9VLS · class A
Cecil L. Robinson Rfd 2-Box 145, Ashley 62808 Il Fall 1962 p.546, Summer 1963 p.571, Fall 1964 p.535, Summer 1965 p.548, Spring 1966 p.551, Fall 1967 p.601, Summer 1969 p.595, Winter 1971 p.615, Fall 1971 p.616, Winter 1972 p.622, Winter 1976 p.626
1961 · 1 edition W9VLS
Cecil L. R081nson Ashley Ill Fall 1961 p.565
1961 · 1 edition W9VLS
Cecil L. Robinson Ashley Spring 1961 p.537
1941 → 1959 · 14 editions W9VLS
Cecil Robinson Ashley, 111. Spring 1941 p.203, Fall 1947 p.205, Fall 1948 p.218, Summer 1949 p.211, Summer 1950 p.218, Spring 1951 p.254, Fall 1952 p.285, Fall 1953 p.294, Fall 1954 p.308, Fall 1955 p.365, Spring 1956 p.362, Fall 1957 p.432, Summer 1958 p.450, Spring 1959 p.467