🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 18, 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)
KA9DKI HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 18, 2017.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 18, 2017
Previous holder: JOHN C ZANK SR
Held KA9DKI Oct 15, 1985 → Jul 17, 2015
· first licensed Oct 15, 1985 as KA9DKI
· 1 license · FRN 0013353834 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1981 as KA9DKI, before the FCC's online records
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 26, 1995 → Apr 7, 1999 · 7 discs KA9DKI
· General · issued Jul 17, 1995, expires Jul 17, 2005
JOHN C ZANK SR
1926 S ELMWOOD AVE, BERWYN, IL 60402
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 12, 1995 · 4 discs KA9DKI
· General · issued Oct 15, 1985, expires Oct 15, 1995
JOHN C ZANK SR
1926 S ELMWOOD, BERWYN, IL 60402
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 KA9DKI
JOHN C ZANK SR
1926 S ELMWOOD AVE, BERWYN, IL 60402
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.
1985 → 1995 · 5 editions KA9DKI · class G
John C Zank 1926 S Elmwood, Berwyn, IL 60402 Winter 1985 p.1140, Winter 1986 p.1137, Winter 1987 p.1155, 1994 p.1593, 1995 p.1734
1984 · 1 edition KA9DKI · class G
John C Zank 1916 S Elmwood, Berwyn, IL 60401 Winter 1984 p.1138
1980 → 1983 · 3 editions KA9DKI · class G
John Czank 1926 S Elmwood Ave, Berwyn, IL 60402 Winter 1980 p.1013, 1981 p.950, Winter 1983 p.1095
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KA9DKI in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KA9DKI beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.