🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 11, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 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 · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
AB6JF HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Feb 19, 2004.
2x2 call: only Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Last requested Mar 9, 2015 as choice 1:
not granted, that applicant got KC6JMF instead.
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 AB6JF
· Amateur Extra · issued Feb 18, 1992, expires Feb 18, 2002
· previously KM6NL(Advanced)
RICHARD D. WATKINS
550 PRADA DR, MILPITAS, CA 95035
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as AB6JF
RICHARD D WATKINS
550 PRADA DR, MILPITAS, CA 95035
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 AB6JF · class E
Richard 0 Watkins 550 Prada Or Milpitas Ca 950js 1997 p.1263
1996 · 1 edition AB6JF · class E
Richard D Mil~itas, CA 95035 1996 p.1216
Others Requesting AB6JF
1 application listed AB6JF as a choice, newest first.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for AB6JF in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of AB6JF beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.