🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 21, 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)
KA9SBF HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 23, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 23, 2000
Previous holder: ORVILLE D HAMMACK
Held KA9SBF Nov 22, 1988 → Nov 22, 1998
· first licensed Nov 22, 1988 as KA9SBF
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1987 as KA9SBF, before the FCC's online records
KA9SBFExpiredNoviceNov 22, 1988 → Nov 22, 1998 (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 → Oct 31, 2000 · 14 discs KA9SBF
· Novice · issued Nov 22, 1988, expires Nov 22, 1998
ORVILLE D. HAMMACK
RT 4 BOX 68A SUNSET CIR, LEWISBURG, WV 24901
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 KA9SBF
ORVILLE D HAMMACK
RT 4 BOX 68A SUNSET CIR, LEWISBURG, WV 24901
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.
1987 → 1997 · 5 editions KA9SBF · class N
N Orvil~ 0 Hammack Jb05 Elmhurst Or, Fort Wayne In 4b609 Winter 1987 p.1215, 1994 p.1673, Winter 1995 p.1780, 1996 p.1871, 1997 p.1944
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KA9SBF in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KA9SBF beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.