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

K9ARA HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Feb 6, 2021.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Dec 11, 2025 as choice 5: not granted, that applicant got K1APX instead.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Feb 6, 2021

Previous holder: Ryan J Lapinskas

Held K9ARA Jan 17, 2018 → Feb 5, 2019 · first licensed Apr 10, 2017 as KD9IKH · 3 licenses · FRN 0026430256

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

Previous holder: JOHN R LANGE JR

Held K9ARA Oct 1, 1985 → Sep 26, 2005 · first licensed Oct 1, 1985 as K9ARA · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1956 as K9ARA, 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.
K9ARA 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 K9ARA

8 applications listed K9ARA as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #K9ARAResult
Dec 11, 2025 Dec 29, 2025 KF0PQW · Benjamin Barrera · Saint Louis, MO 5Not granted They got K1APX (choice 1)
Aug 28, 2025 Sep 15, 2025 KE9DWL · Albatross Amateur Radio Society · Aroma Park, IL 2Not granted They got K9AAS (choice 1)
Jun 25, 2021 Jul 13, 2021 KO4RMI · Matthew E Porzel · PALM BAY, FL 2Not granted They got K9SFL (choice 1)
Mar 2, 2021 Mar 20, 2021 AC9YI · Andrew D Bottrell 371 · Elmwood, IL 7Not granted They got WF9U (choice 5)
Dec 27, 2017 Jan 14, 2018 KD9IKH · Ryan J Lapinskas · Lindenhurst, IL 1Granted Granted this call
Nov 5, 2015 Nov 23, 2015 KC9OWN · Lisa M Beasley · Kell, IL 2Not granted They got KC9BG (choice 1)
Aug 28, 2015 Sep 15, 2015 KD9DVI · Larry E Bruhn · Wood River, IL 3Not granted They got K9AAU (choice 1)
Aug 16, 2006 Sep 3, 2006 KD4NCE · ANTHONY R ARNOLD · RUSSELLVILLE, KY 2Not granted They got K1ARA (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K9ARA in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K9ARA beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.