N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 8, 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)

K5VGM HAM

⏳ Not available yet — opens for vanity requests May 9, 2028, two years after the license was canceled (May 8, 2026).
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Feb 19, 2014 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record

Previous holder: John S Parmalee

Held K5VGM Mar 11, 2014 → May 8, 2026 · first licensed Oct 11, 1988 as W6CUM · 4 licenses · FRN 0003967148
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1966 as W6CUM, 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: DON R DALE

Held K5VGM Sep 5, 1989 → Sep 5, 1999 · first licensed Sep 5, 1989 as K5VGM · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1964 as K5VGM, 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.
K5VGM 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 K5VGM

1 application listed K5VGM as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #K5VGMResult
Feb 19, 2014 Mar 9, 2014 KF5VXH · John S Parmalee · Hockley, TX 1Granted Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K5VGM in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K5VGM beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.