🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 14, 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)
KA8KRW HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Oct 15, 2009.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Oct 15, 2009
Previous holder: LARRY E SMITH
Held KA8KRW Dec 29, 1987 → Oct 14, 2007
· first licensed Dec 29, 1987 as KA8KRW
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1981 as KA8KRW, before the FCC's online records
KA8KRWExpiredAdvancedDec 29, 1987 → Oct 14, 2007 (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 Mar 9, 1998 → Apr 17, 2003 · 11 discs KA8KRW
· Advanced · issued Oct 14, 1997, expires Oct 14, 2007
LARRY E. SMITH .
242 BLAINE AVE, MARION, OH 43302-3641
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs KA8KRW
· Advanced · issued Dec 29, 1987, expires Dec 29, 1997
LARRY E SMITH
242 BLAINE AVE, MARION, OH 43302
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 KA8KRW
LARRY E SMITH
242 BLAINE AVE, MARION, OH 43302-3641
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 KA8KRW · class A
Larry E Smith 242 Bla~e Ave, Marion Oh 1996 p.1667
1992 → 1994 · 2 editions KA8KRW · class A
Larry E Smith 242 Blaine Ave, Marion, OH 43302 1992 p.1296, 1994 p.1487
1986 · 1 edition KA8KRW · class A
Larry E Smith 241 Blaine Aye, Marion Oh, 43302 Winter 1986 p.1058
1983 · 1 edition KA8KRW · class G
G David Burnett 820 Colwell St, Maumee, OH 43537 Winter 1983 p.1016
1981 · 1 edition KA8KRW · class N
Larry E Smith 242 Blaine Ave, Marion, OH 43302 1981 p.880
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KA8KRW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KA8KRW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.