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WB8DEF HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — WB8DEF was last held in the 1990s (license expired Apr 21, 1997), before the FCC's online records begin, so the two-year wait is long over. Confirm in the FCC's vanity system before applying.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not in the FCC's online records (1999 → now), but held before then: see below.
Held Before 1999
WB8DEF in the 1993–2003 Callbooks
From the FCC amateur database as published on the QRZ! callsign CD-ROMs, 1993–2003, before and alongside the FCC's online records (which start in 1999). "Seen" dates are the first and last disc showing that record; the issue date is the FCC's, so it can be a renewal of an even older license.
Seen Oct 26, 1995 → Apr 7, 1999 · 7 discs WB8DEF
· Club / other · issued Apr 27, 1987, expires Apr 21, 1997
· previously K8DL
BROOKHAVEN H S AMATEUR RADIO CLUB
318 E LINCOLN AVE, COLUMBUS, OH 43214
Seen Oct 31, 1994 · 1 disc WB8DEF
· Club / other · issued Apr 21, 1987, expires Apr 21, 1997
DAVID K LEWIS
318 E LINCOLN AVE, COLUMBUS, OH 43214
WB8DEF 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 WB8DEF · class B
Brookhaven Hs Arc D Lewis, 318 E Linc~n Ave 1997 p.1690
1994 · 1 edition WB8DEF
James V Osborne Silent Key Winter 1994 p.1444
1979 · 1 edition WB8DEF · class B
E S Ne 427 S Rosedae Lima, OH 45805 Winter 1979 p.854
1971 → 1978 · 7 editions WB8DEF · class B
Brookhaven H S Arc 4077 Karl Ad, Columbus _ K8dgc T Leon J King, 1533 Huizenga, Muskegon, ME 49442 Fall 1971 p.505, Winter 1972 p.512, Winter 1973 p.512, 1974 p.481, Winter 1975 p.508, Winter 1976 p.517, Winter 1978 p.785
1969 · 1 edition WB8DEF · class B
Brookhaven H S A R C 4 0 7 7 K A R L Rd, Columbus Summer 1969 p.499
None · 1 edition WB8DEF · class B
Brookhaven H S Arc 4077 Karl Rd None p.481