🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 11, 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)
KA4BLM HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 17, 2016.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jun 17, 2016
Previous holder: JAMES H HIGHTOWER
Held KA4BLM Mar 23, 1984 → Jun 16, 2014
· first licensed Mar 23, 1984 as KA4BLM
· 1 license · FRN 0011103454 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as KA4BLM, before the FCC's online records
KA4BLMExpiredNoviceMar 23, 1984 → Jun 16, 2014 (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 Oct 31, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 17 discs KA4BLM
· Novice · issued Jun 16, 1994, expires Jun 16, 2004
JAMES H. HIGHTOWER
739 CONCORD RD SW, SMYRNA, GA 30082
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs KA4BLM
· Novice · issued Mar 23, 1984, expires Mar 23, 1994
JAMES H HIGHTOWER
739 CONCORD RD SW, SMYRNA, GA 30080
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 KA4BLM
JAMES H HIGHTOWER
739 CONCORD RD SW, SMYRNA, GA 30082
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.
1997 · 1 edition KA4BLM · class N
James H Hightower 7 9 Concord Rd Sw, Smyrna, GA 30081 1997 p.586
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KA4BLM in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KA4BLM beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.