N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 4, 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

K5BQW HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Dec 1, 2007.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and 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 Dec 1, 2007

Previous holder: HERMAN M ALTENBURGER

Held K5BQW Nov 30, 1995 → Nov 30, 2005 · first licensed Nov 30, 1995 as K5BQW · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

K5BQW Expired General Nov 30, 1995 → Nov 30, 2005 (expired)

Licensee
HERMAN M ALTENBURGER

Address
7131 GALLEON
HOUSTON, TX 77036
29.6990, -95.5365 (ZIP center) · Grid EL29fq · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Last granted
Nov 30, 1995

Effective
Nov 30, 1995

Last action
Dec 1, 2007
FCC actions (1)
- Dec 1, 2007 — 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 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as K5BQW
HERMAN M ALTENBURGER
7131 GALLEON, HOUSTON, TX 77036
29.6990, -95.5365 (ZIP center) · Grid EL29fq · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Others requesting K5BQW

1 application listed K5BQW as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Dec 19, 2011	Jan 6, 2012	AF5AE · JOHN J FIORONI · DALLAS, TX	4	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K5BQW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K5BQW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.