🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 3, 2026) · next update today 6:00 am CST
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)
AB3BR HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Sep 22, 2025.
2x2 call: only Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Sep 22, 2025
Previous holder: Douglas W Smith
Held AB3BR Mar 10, 2004 → Sep 21, 2023
· first licensed Sep 21, 1993 as WB9BRU
· 2 licenses · FRN 0009523283 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1971 as WB9BRU, before the FCC's online records
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 Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 17, 2003 · 19 discs WB9BRU
· General · issued Sep 21, 1993, expires Sep 21, 2003
DOUGLAS W. SMITH
RD 5 BOX 104, MOUNT PLEASANT, PA 15666
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Nov 1, 2026 · 104 snapshots · as WB9BRU
Douglas W Smith
418 Green St, Greensburg, PA 15601
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for AB3BR in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of AB3BR beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.