🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:16 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 22, 2026) · next update today 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)
KB9EFB HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 24, 2005.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
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 31, 1994 → Apr 7, 1999 · 9 discs KB9EFB
· Technician Plus · issued Nov 23, 1993, expires Nov 23, 2003
JAMES R WENGLER SR
RR 1 BOX 162, RIDGE FARM, IL 61870
Seen May 3, 1994 · 1 disc KB9EFB
· Technician · issued Nov 23, 1993, expires Nov 23, 2003
JAMES R WENGLER SR
RR 1 BOX 162, RIDGE FARM, IL 61870
Seen Sep 9, 1993 · 1 disc KB9EFB
· Novice · issued Mar 13, 1990, expires Mar 13, 2000
JAMES R WENGLER SR
RR 1 BOX 162, RIDGE FARM, IL 61870
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 KB9EFB
JAMES R WENGLER SR
RR 1 BOX 162, RIDGE FARM, IL 61870
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.
1997 · 1 edition KB9EFB · class T
James R Weng~r Sr ~r I Bo1 162, Ridge Farm, IL 61870 1997 p.1861
1991 · 1 edition KB9EFB · class N
James R Wengler Sr Rr 1 Box 162, Ridge Farm, IL 61870 Winter 1991 p.1334
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KB9EFB in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KB9EFB beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.