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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)
WA4WHY HAM
✅ Never issued — WA4WHY 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.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
The FCC has no record of WA4WHY ever being issued.
WA4WHY 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.
1982 → 1983 · 2 editions WA4WHY · class G
Gordon J Beatty Jr 2235 Shaw Rd Ext, Fayetteville, NC 28301 Winter 1982 p.545, Winter 1983 p.558
1981 · 1 edition WA4WHY · class G
Gordon J Beatty Ur 2235 Shaw Rd Ext, Fayetteville: Winter 1981 p.527
1980 · 1 edition WA4WHY · class A
Robert L Tygh Jr Rfd 6-Box 622, Fayetteville, NC 28301 Winter 1980 p.523
1977 → 1979 · 3 editions WA4WHY · class G
Gordon J Beatty Jr 2235 Shaw Rd Ext, Ayetteville -W4wjl G Joe Newberg, 235 Stone Rd, Lexington Oe Ky, FL 33450 Winter 1977 p.338, Winter 1978 p.460, Winter 1979 p.496
1970 · 1 edition WA4WHY
M Fleet Airborne Elect Train Ing Unit Spring 1970 p.307
None · 1 edition WA4WHY · class G
Gordon J Beatty Jr 2235 Shaw Rd Ext, Fayetteville None p.483