🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 13, 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)
KA8RHY HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jan 20, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jan 20, 2000
Previous holder: MATTHEW K DEMPSEY
Held KA8RHY Jan 19, 1988 → Jan 19, 1998
· first licensed Jan 19, 1988 as KA8RHY
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
KA8RHYExpiredNoviceJan 19, 1988 → Jan 19, 1998 (expired)
Licensee
MATTHEW K DEMPSEY
Address
625 WIMBLETON BIRMINGHAM, MI 48008
Last granted
Jan 19, 1988
Effective
Jan 19, 1988
Last action
Jan 20, 2000
FCC actions (1)
Jan 20, 2000 — 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 Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 8, 1999 · 12 discs KA8RHY
· Novice · issued Jan 19, 1988, expires Jan 19, 1998
MATTHEW K. DEMPSEY
625 WIMBLETON, BIRMINGHAM, MI 48008
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 KA8RHY
MATTHEW K DEMPSEY
625 WIMBLETON, BIRMINGHAM, MI 48008
KA8RHY 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.
1994 · 1 edition KA8RHY · class N
Matthew K Dempsey 625 Wimbleton, Birmingham, MI 48008 1994 p.1528
1988 → 1990 · 2 editions KA8RHY · class N
Matthew K Dempsey 615 Wimbleton, B11mingham Ml 48008 Winter 1988 p.1138, Winter 1990 p.1175
1986 · 1 edition KA8RHY · class N
Matthew K Dempsej 625 Wimblelon, Birmingham Ml 4b008 N Dennis E Hovatter1 Pob 508, Masontown, WV 10542 Winter 1986 p.1088
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KA8RHY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KA8RHY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.