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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)
KB1QE HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — KB1QE was last held in the 1990s (license expired Nov 14, 1999), before the FCC's online records begin, so the two-year wait is long over. Confirm in the FCC's vanity system before applying.
2x2 call: Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not in the FCC's online records (1999 → now), but held before then: see below.
Held Before 1999
KB1QE in the 1993–2003 Callbooks
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, 1994 · 3 discs KB1QE
· Advanced · issued Nov 14, 1989, expires Nov 14, 1999
· previously KC7LC
GEORGE B GARDNER
9 PROUTY AVE, NORWELL, MA 02061
KB1QE 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.
1990 · 1 edition KB1QE · class A
George E Showalter 5413 Newton, Overland Park, KS 66101 Winter 1990 p.81
1987 · 1 edition KB1QE · class A
George 8 Gardner 39 Shirley St, Quincy Ma 01lb9 K~m ~ ~:~:~de Lw:1:~: J ~r. ~1~.a, :~~~~~r ~~ Imi Winter 1987 p.170