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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)
WB5EDS HAM
✅ Never issued — WB5EDS 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 Feb 14, 2014 as choice 2:
not granted, that applicant got WB5ALM instead.
The FCC has no record of WB5EDS ever being issued.
WB5EDS 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.
1981 · 1 edition WB5EDS · class A
John M Bentley Ur Rfd 2-Box 122, Perryville 1981 p.499
1977 → 1980 · 4 editions WB5EDS · class A
John M Bentley Jr Rfd 2-Box 122, Perryville 7212b Ar Winter 1977 p.359, Winter 1978 p.494, Winter 1979 p.534, Winter 1980 p.566
1976 · 1 edition WB5EDS · class A
John M Bentley Jr Rfd 2, Perryville 72126 Ar Winter 1976 p.332
1973 → 1974 · 2 editions WB5EDS · class A
John M Bentley Jr 4118 Bray, Corpus Christi 78413 Tx Winter 1973 p.330, 1974 p.301
Others Requesting WB5EDS
1 application listed WB5EDS as a choice, newest first.