N9TPB FCC License Search

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

K5GBU HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Apr 10, 2011.

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 Apr 10, 2011

Previous holder: KEVIN R HOWARD

Held K5GBU Apr 9, 1999 → Apr 9, 2009 · first licensed as KF6TJS · 2 licenses · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

📦 Moved: , None → San Jose, CA

K5GBU Expired Technician · vanity Apr 9, 1999 → Apr 9, 2009 (expired)

Licensee
KEVIN R HOWARD

Address
1584 MENDENHALL 1
SAN JOSE, CA 95130-1233
37.2777, -121.9862 (ZIP center) · Grid CM97ag · CQ 3 · ITU 6 · map ↗

Previous call
KF6TJS

Last granted
Apr 9, 1999

Effective
Apr 9, 1999

Last action
Apr 12, 2011
FCC actions (1)
- Apr 12, 2011 — License expired LIEXP
KF6TJS Canceled Technician → Apr 9, 1999 (canceled)

Licensee
KEVIN R HOWARD

Address

Last granted

Effective

Last action

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 KF6TJS
KEVIN R HOWARD
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as K5GBU
KEVIN R HOWARD
1584 MENDENHALL 1, SAN JOSE, CA 95130-1233
37.2777, -121.9862 (ZIP center) · Grid CM97ag · CQ 3 · ITU 6 · map ↗

Others requesting K5GBU

1 application listed K5GBU as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Nov 22, 2016	Dec 10, 2016	KF5DAT · LEROY MICHALOW · WYLIE, TX	15	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K5GBU in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K5GBU beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.