N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 9:45 am CDT · 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

KB5BN HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Oct 19, 2000.

2x2 call: Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Oct 19, 2000

Previous holder: PATRICK W PRESTON

Held KB5BN Oct 18, 1988 → Oct 18, 1998 · first licensed Oct 18, 1988 as KB5BN · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

KB5BN Expired Advanced Oct 18, 1988 → Oct 18, 1998 (expired)

Licensee
PATRICK W PRESTON

Address
3420 WENDELL DR
FORT WORTH, TX 76117
32.8034, -97.2674 (ZIP center) · Grid EM12it · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Last granted
Oct 18, 1988

Effective
Oct 18, 1988

Last action
Oct 19, 2000
FCC actions (1)
- Oct 19, 2000 — License expired LIEXP

Address history

From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as KB5BN
PATRICK W PRESTON
3420 WENDELL DR, FORT WORTH, TX 76117
32.8034, -97.2674 (ZIP center) · Grid EM12it · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Others requesting KB5BN

3 applications listed KB5BN as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Apr 20, 2020	May 8, 2020	AG5YJ · JAMES J KELLY · SPRING, TX	7	Granted
Dec 27, 2016	Jan 14, 2017	K5NDY · Andrew T Hopkins · Orange, TX	18	Granted
Jul 22, 2013	Aug 9, 2013	AF5IS · ROBERT L NETHERTON JR · PLANO, TX	3	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KB5BN in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KB5BN beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.