🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 19, 2026) · next update today 7:15 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)
KA9QEN HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Dec 13, 2001.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Dec 13, 2001
Previous holder: MICHAEL P O BRIEN
Held KA9QEN Dec 12, 1989 → Dec 12, 1999
· first licensed Dec 12, 1989 as KA9QEN
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1985 as KA9QEN, before the FCC's online records
KA9QENExpiredNoviceDec 12, 1989 → Dec 12, 1999 (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 Sep 9, 1993 → Nov 1, 2001 · 16 discs KA9QEN
· Novice · issued Dec 12, 1989, expires Dec 12, 1999
MICHAEL P. O BRIEN
4802 WHITE OAK, ROCKFORD, IL 61111
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 KA9QEN
MICHAEL P O BRIEN
4802 WHITE OAK, ROCKFORD, IL 61111
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.
1986 → 1994 · 2 editions KA9QEN · class N
Michael P O'brien 4b01 White Oak Ave, Rockford Il Bllll Winter 1986 p.1193, 1994 p.1663
1985 · 1 edition KA9QEN · class N
Michael P O'brien 4b01 W Ite Oak Ave, Rockford Il B1111 Winter 1985 p.1197
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KA9QEN in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KA9QEN beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.