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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)
WB5NEF HAM
✅ Never issued — WB5NEF 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 WB5NEF ever being issued.
WB5NEF 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.
1984 · 1 edition WB5NEF · class T
Jerome W Gagala 11bl Sedgefield Rd, Marietta Ga 300b1 Winter 1984 p.1071
1979 · 1 edition WB5NEF · class C
James P ~~ristian 17 Pile Tn, Fairl'iew Hgls, IL 62208 Winter 1979 p.482
1977 → 1978 · 2 editions WB5NEF · class E
James L Wood 809 Creek, Muskogee 74401 Ok Winter 1977 p.379, Winter 1978 p.525