N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 8:30 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 1, 2026) · next update today 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

K8HOW HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 9, 2000.

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 Nov 9, 2000

Previous holder: IRA L SWINDLER

Held K8HOW Nov 8, 1988 → Nov 8, 1998 · first licensed Nov 8, 1988 as K8HOW · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

K8HOW Expired General Nov 8, 1988 → Nov 8, 1998 (expired)

Licensee
IRA L SWINDLER

Address
BOX 263
RANDOLPH, OH 44265

Last granted
Nov 8, 1988

Effective
Nov 8, 1988

Last action
Nov 9, 2000
FCC actions (1)
- Nov 9, 2000 — 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 → Sep 27, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as K8HOW
IRA L SWINDLER
BOX 263, RANDOLPH, OH 44265

Others requesting K8HOW

3 applications listed K8HOW as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Jun 24, 2025	Jul 12, 2025	AD8PK · Kyle J Mesker · Grove City, OH	10	Granted
Jun 23, 2025	Jul 11, 2025	KF8EHK · Kyle J Mesker · Grove City, OH	8	Dismissed
Jan 6, 2006	Jan 24, 2006	KD8COQ · Sean F Forrester · Toledo, OH	5	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K8HOW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K8HOW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.