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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)
WB5TVS HAM
✅ Never issued — WB5TVS 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 Jul 21, 2016 as choice 2:
not granted, that applicant got WX5KLW instead.
The FCC has no record of WB5TVS ever being issued.
WB5TVS 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 WB5TVS · class A
William C Ahlers 640 St, Hamilton, OH 45011 1997 p.1797
1990 → 1995 · 2 editions WB5TVS · class A
· later N8KRC
William C Ahlers 640 Sycamore St, Hamilton, OH 45011 Winter 1990 p.1184, 1995 p.1681
1977 → 1978 · 2 editions WB5TVS · class N
James E Joyner Box 151, Leander 78641 Tx Winter 1977 p.400, Winter 1978 p.549
Others Requesting WB5TVS
1 application listed WB5TVS as a choice, newest first.