N9TPB FCC License Search
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K4RAU HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 16, 2023.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jun 27, 2011 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Jul 16, 2023

Previous holder: RONALD L RAUCH

Held K4RAU Jul 15, 2011 → Jul 15, 2021 · first licensed Dec 24, 1990 as WB6PCH · 2 licenses · FRN 0004109278
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1966 as WB6PCH, before the FCC's online records

Callbook Records, 1993–2003
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.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Previous holder: HESTER C MOTLEY

Held K4RAU Mar 29, 1988 → Feb 3, 2008 · first licensed Mar 29, 1988 as K4RAU · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1959 as K4RAU, before the FCC's online records

Callbook Records, 1993–2003
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.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
K4RAU 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.

Others Requesting K4RAU

1 application listed K4RAU as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #K4RAUResult
Jun 27, 2011 Jul 15, 2011 WB6PCH · RONALD L RAUCH · Lawrenceburg, TN 1Granted Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K4RAU in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K4RAU beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.