N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 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)

KB9HTF HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Apr 29, 2014.

2x3 call: any licensee 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 Apr 29, 2014

Previous holder: VASSIL R GECHEV

Held KB9HTF Apr 28, 1992 → Apr 28, 2012 · first licensed Apr 28, 1992 as KB9HTF · 1 license · FRN 0008554057

KB9HTF Expired Novice Apr 28, 1992 → Apr 28, 2012 (expired)

Licensee
VASSIL R GECHEV

Address
2508 OLD PEORIA CT
BLOOMINGTON, IL 61704
40.4701, -88.9415 (ZIP center) · Grid EN50ml · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0008554057

Last granted
May 20, 2003

Effective
May 20, 2003

Last action
Apr 29, 2014
FCC actions (3)
- Apr 29, 2014 — License expired LIEXP
- May 20, 2003 — License renewed LIREN
- May 20, 2003 — FCC action LITIN

Callbook Records, 1993–2003

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 → Apr 17, 2003 · 19 discs
KB9HTF · Novice · issued Apr 28, 1992, expires Apr 28, 2002
VASSIL R. GECHEV
1504 DUSTIN DR APT 3, NORMAL, IL 61761

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 KB9HTF
VASSIL R GECHEV
2508 OLD PEORIA CT, BLOOMINGTON, IL 61704
40.4701, -88.9415 (ZIP center) · Grid EN50ml · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

KB9HTF 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.

1994 → 1997 · 3 editions
KB9HTF · class N
Vassil R Gechev
1504 Dustin Dr Apt 3, Normal, IL 61761
1994 p.1621, 1995 p.1761, 1997 p.1884

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KB9HTF in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KB9HTF beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.