N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 8, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 am CDT
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)

WB5BUD HAM

✅ Never issued — WB5BUD 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 Nov 23, 2001 as choice 3: not granted, that applicant got WI5BUD instead.
The FCC has no record of WB5BUD ever being issued.
WB5BUD 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.

Others Requesting WB5BUD

1 application listed WB5BUD as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #WB5BUDResult
Nov 23, 2001 Dec 11, 2001 KB5UBL · GEORGE W MACKEY SR · GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 3Not granted They got WI5BUD (choice 1)