N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 12, 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 · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)

K8RVO HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 29, 2006.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jul 24, 2008 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got W8RTV instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Jul 29, 2006

Previous holder: FRANCIS B MELVIN

Held K8RVO Sep 18, 1984 → Jul 28, 2004 · first licensed Sep 18, 1984 as K8RVO · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1961 as K8RVO, before the FCC's online records

K8RVO Expired General Sep 18, 1984 → Jul 28, 2004 (expired)

Licensee
FRANCIS B MELVIN

Address
1620 DUTCHESS AVE
KETTERING, OH 45420-1338
39.7188, -84.1292 (ZIP center) · Grid EM79wr · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Jul 28, 1994

Effective
Jul 28, 1994

Last action
Jul 29, 2006
FCC actions (1)
- Jul 29, 2006 — License expired LIEXP

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.

Seen Oct 31, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 17 discs
K8RVO · General · issued Jul 28, 1994, expires Jul 28, 2004
FRANCIS B. MELVIN
1620 DUTCHESS AVE, KETTERING, OH 45420-1338
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs
K8RVO · General · issued Sep 18, 1984, expires Sep 18, 1994
FRANCIS B MELVIN
1620 DUTCHESS AVE, KETTERING, OH 45420

Address history

From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as K8RVO
FRANCIS B MELVIN
1620 DUTCHESS AVE, KETTERING, OH 45420-1338
39.7188, -84.1292 (ZIP center) · Grid EM79wr · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

K8RVO 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.

1996 · 1 edition
K8RVO · class G
Francis B Memn
1620 .dutchess Ave, Kettering, OH 45410
1996 p.1715
1994 · 1 edition
K8RVO · class G
Francis B Melvin
1620 Dutchess Ave, Kettering, OH 45420
1994 p.1531
1986 · 1 edition
K8RVO · class G
Francis B Melvin
Lb20 Dutchess Ave, Kettering, OH 45420
Winter 1986 p.1091
1976 → 1983 · 7 editions
K8RVO · class G
Francis B Melvin
1620 Dutchess Av, Dayton 45420 Oh
Winter 1976 p.552, Winter 1977 p.599, Winter 1978 p.838, Winter 1979 p.911, Winter 1980 p.969, 1981 p.907, Winter 1983 p.1051
1975 · 1 edition
K8RVO · class C
Francis B Melvin
1020 Dutchess Av, Dayton 45420 Oh
Winter 1975 p.547
1969 → 1974 · 7 editions
K8RVO · class C
Francis B. Melvin
1620 Dutchess Av, Dayton 45420 Oh
Fall 1969 p.531, Spring 1970 p.542, Winter 1971 p.545, Fall 1971 p.545, Winter 1972 p.553, Winter 1973 p.553, 1974 p.523
1969 · 1 edition
K8RVO · class C
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Summer 1969 p.531
1967 · 1 edition
K8RVO
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Fall 1967 p.530
1965 → 1966 · 2 editions
K8RVO
Francis B. Melvin
1431 Central Park Av.
Summer 1965 p.488, Spring 1966 p.492
1964 · 1 edition
K8RVO
D A V I D B. G R E E N
2 1 9 4 9 B Y R O N E. W 8 S A B E D W A R D P. Y A M B O R, 2 8 0 6 P A R K L A N E Dr . P A R M A 34 Ohio
Fall 1964 p.477
None → 1962 · 4 editions
K8RVO · class G
Francis B Melvin
1620 Dutchess Av, Dayton 45420 Oh
None p.523, Spring 1961 p.480, Fall 1961 p.500, Fall 1962 p.486

Others Requesting K8RVO

1 application listed K8RVO as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	K8RVO	Result
Jul 24, 2008	Aug 11, 2008	N8RHT · RICHARD C VANDECAR SR · HARRISON TOWNSHIP, MI	2	Not granted	They got W8RTV (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K8RVO in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K8RVO beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.