🕒 FCC license data updated today 6:03 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 23, 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)
KB9FOM HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since May 8, 2003.
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 Apr 21, 1996 → Apr 17, 2003 · 14 discs KB9FOM
· Technician Plus · issued May 7, 1991, expires May 7, 2001
JOHN W. COOLEY
5201 S DORCHESTER, CHICAGO, IL 60615
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 26, 1995 · 5 discs KB9FOM
· Technician · issued May 7, 1991, expires May 7, 2001
JOHN W COOLEY
5201 S DORCHESTER, CHICAGO, IL 60615
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 KB9FOM
JOHN W COOLEY
5201 S DORCHESTER, CHICAGO, IL 60615
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 KB9FOM · class P
John W Cooley 5201 S Dorchester, Chicago, IL 60615 1997 p.1870
1996 · 1 edition KB9FOM · class T
John W Cooley 5101 S Dorchester, Chkago, IL 60615 1996 p.1802
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KB9FOM in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KB9FOM beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.