N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 6:02 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 2, 2026) · next update today 9:45 am CDT

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

AB5II HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Aug 18, 2005.

2x2 call: only Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Aug 18, 2005

Previous holder: JOHN M RICKER

Held AB5II Aug 17, 1993 → Aug 17, 2003 · first licensed Aug 17, 1993 as AB5II · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

AB5II Expired Amateur Extra Aug 17, 1993 → Aug 17, 2003 (expired)

Licensee
JOHN M RICKER

Address
22 WILLOW WAY
KERRVILLE, TX 78028
30.0357, -99.1652 (ZIP center) · Grid EM00ka · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Previous call
KJ5EH (Advanced)

Last granted
Aug 17, 1993

Effective
Aug 17, 1993

Last action
Aug 18, 2005
FCC actions (1)
- Aug 18, 2005 — License expired LIEXP

Address history

From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Sep 27, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as AB5II
JOHN M RICKER
22 WILLOW WAY, KERRVILLE, TX 78028
30.0357, -99.1652 (ZIP center) · Grid EM00ka · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Others requesting AB5II

2 applications listed AB5II as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Oct 16, 2019	Nov 3, 2019	KC5GHS · JOHN A WELSCH III · Salt Lake City, UT	3	Granted
Dec 14, 2015	Jan 1, 2016	KD5NTL · RICHARD E GROBY · Dodge Center, MN	15	Dismissed

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for AB5II in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of AB5II beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.