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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)
WB5ARO HAM
✅ Never issued — WB5ARO 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 WB5ARO ever being issued.
WB5ARO 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.
1997 · 1 edition WB5ARO
G ~~~~/m11 C, 27144 Forsythia Dr 1997 p.1670
1990 · 1 edition WB5ARO · class T
Jesse A Swaim 1114 W Carson St, Muncie, IN 47303 Winter 1990 p.1210
1979 · 1 edition WB5ARO · class C
J E Dreibelbis 3417 Ciniza Dr, Gallup, NM 87301 Winter 1979 p.76
1971 · 1 edition WB5ARO · class G
David B Ercegovic 4187 W 210th St Fall 1971 p.497