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W9WSL HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 20, 2000.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 20, 2000
Previous holder: GERALD GROLEAU
Held W9WSL Jul 19, 1988 → Jul 19, 1998
· first licensed Jul 19, 1988 as W9WSL
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1953 as W9WSL, before the FCC's online records
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 Sep 9, 1993 → May 2, 2000 · 13 discs W9WSL
· General · issued Jul 19, 1988, expires Jul 19, 1998
GERALD GROLEAU
1820 8TH ST, WINTHROP HARBOR, IL 60096
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 25, 2026 · 51 snapshots · as W9WSL
GERALD GROLEAU
1820 8TH ST, WINTHROP HARBOR, IL 60096
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.
1997 · 1 edition W9WSL · class G
Gerald Groleau Ib10 Bth Street, Winthrop Harbor Il &00% 1997 p.1969
1994 · 1 edition W9WSL · class G
Gerald Groleau 1820 8th Street, Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096 1994 p.1693
1987 · 1 edition W9WSL · class G
Gml Gro•au 2400 Llth, Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096 Winter 1987 p.1234
1983 · 1 edition W9WSL · class G
Gerald Groleau 2400 11th, Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096 Winter 1983 p.1167
1982 · 1 edition W9WSL · class G
Gerald Groleau 2400 Llth, Winthrop Harbor, IL 60096 Winter 1982 p.1130
1957 · 1 edition W9WSL
G E R A L D G R O L E A U 2200 E L I S H A A V E N U E, Z I O N, 111. Fall 1957 p.434
1953 → 1956 · 5 editions W9WSL
Gerald Groleau 2200 Elisha Avenue, Zion, 111. Fall 1953 p.296, Spring 1954 p.304, Fall 1954 p.310, Fall 1955 p.367, Spring 1956 p.363
1941 · 2 editions W9WSL
Efner 0. Nelson Rolla. N. Dak. W9ww'f'.~:y. ~<\hi~a:, 0, B!j!: 1849 N. Fairfield Av., Chicago. Winter 1941 p.226, Spring 1941 p.205
1937 → 1940 · 4 editions W9WSL
E. O. Nelson Nelson’s Radio Service, Cando Fall 1937 p.151, Spring 1938 p.178, Spring 1940 p.204, Fall 1940 p.197
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9WSL in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9WSL beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.