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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)
WA8LKU HAM
✅ Never issued — WA8LKU 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.
Last requested Apr 21, 2000 as choice 4:
not granted, that applicant got W8LKU instead.
The FCC has no record of WA8LKU ever being issued.
WA8LKU 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.
1969 · 1 edition WA8LKU · class T
Robert C . M E T Z G E R 6 2 5 Grove S T, E A S T Lansing Mi Wa3l0l T Norman D K E L B L E Y, 8 3 2 3 E A G L E R D . K I R T L A N D Summer 1969 p.518
1965 · 1 edition WA8LKU
Robert C Metzger, 625 Grove St.east Lansing Mich Summer 1965 p.473
1964 · 1 edition WA8LKU
R O B E R T C. M E T Z G E R 6 2 5 G R O V E S T, E A S T L A N S I N G Mich Fall 1964 p.464
Others Requesting WA8LKU
2 applications listed WA8LKU as a choice, newest first.