🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 18, 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 · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
K9LAU HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Aug 19, 2010.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Aug 19, 2010
Previous holder: RICHARD H LAU
Held K9LAU Aug 18, 1998 → Aug 18, 2008
· first licensed Oct 5, 1984 as WA9PFQ
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1966 as WA9PFQ, before the FCC's online records
K9LAUExpiredAdvanced · vanityAug 18, 1998 → Aug 18, 2008 (expired)
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 Nov 11, 1998 → Apr 17, 2003 · 10 discs K9LAU
· Advanced · issued Aug 18, 1998, expires Aug 18, 2008
· previously WA9PFQ
RICHARD H. LAU
937 N 6TH AVE, STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
Seen Oct 31, 1994 → Mar 9, 1998 · 7 discs WA9PFQ
· Advanced · issued Oct 11, 1994, expires Oct 11, 2004
RICHARD H LAU
937 N 6TH AVE, STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WA9PFQ
· Advanced · issued Oct 5, 1984, expires Oct 5, 1994
RICHARD H LAU
937 N 6TH AVE, STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 18, 2026 · 50 snapshots · as K9LAU
RICHARD H LAU
937 N 6TH AVE, STURGEON BAY, WI 54235
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.
1988 · 1 edition K9LAU · class G
John B 31 Leisure World, Mesa Winter 1988 p.1221
1984 → 1986 · 3 editions K9LAU · class G
John B Youn! Sr 1037 Leisure World, Mesa, AZ 85106 Winter 1984 p.1176, Winter 1985 p.1177, Winter 1986 p.1173
1983 · 1 edition K9LAU · class G
John B Tang 1037 Leisure World, Mesa, AZ 85206 Winter 1983 p.1132
1980 · 1 edition K9LAU · class G
John B Young 1037 Leisure World, Mesa, AZ 85206 Winter 1980 p.1047
1979 · 1 edition K9LAU · class G
Jotn B Yotjng 1037 Leisure World, Mesa, AZ 85206 Winter 1979 p.476
1974 → 1977 · 4 editions K9LAU · class C
John B. Young 1715 Madison Av, Evansville 47714 In Winter 1974 p.599, Winter 1975 p.591, Winter 1976 p.600, Winter 1977 p.648
1973 · 1 edition K9LAU · class C
J O H N B. Y O U N G 1715 Madison A V Winter 1973 p.600
1965 → 1972 · 6 editions K9LAU · class C
John B. Young 1715 Madison Av, Evansyille 14 Ind Summer 1965 p.530, Spring 1966 p.532, Summer 1969 p.575, Winter 1971 p.596, Fall 1971 p.596, Winter 1972 p.604
1964 · 1 edition K9LAU
J O H N B . Y O U N G 1 7 1 5 M A D I S O N A V .e V A N S V I L L E 1 4 I N D Fall 1964 p.519
1960 → 1963 · 5 editions K9LAU
John B. Young 1715 Madison Av, Evansvjlle 14 Ind Winter 1960 p.516, Spring 1961 p.518, Fall 1961 p.546, Fall 1962 p.529, Summer 1963 p.554
None · 1 edition K9LAU · class G
John B Young 1037 Leisure World, Mesa None p.1052
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for K9LAU in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of K9LAU beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.