🕒 FCC license data updated today 6:02 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 16, 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)
KF4WA HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 15, 2006.
2x2 call: Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 15, 2006
Previous holder: CLIFTON W MC LAIN SR
Held KF4WA May 4, 1984 → Jul 14, 2004
· first licensed May 4, 1984 as KF4WA
· 1 license · FRN 0006758361 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1972 as WB8KMU, before the FCC's online records
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 KF4WA
· Advanced · issued Jul 14, 1994, expires Jul 14, 2004
CLIFTON W MC LAIN SR
5355 CITADEL RD, SOUTH VENICE, FL 34293
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs KF4WA
· Advanced · issued May 4, 1984, expires May 4, 1994
· previously WB8KMU
CLIFTON W MC LAIN SR
5355 CITADEL RD, SOUTH VENICE, FL 33595
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as KF4WA
CLIFTON W MC LAIN SR
550 Gillespie St, Englewood, FL 34223
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 17, 2003 · 1 disc KF4WA
· Advanced · issued Dec 24, 2002, expires Jul 14, 2004
CLIFTON W MC LAIN; SR
550 GILLESPIE ST, ENGLEWOOD, FL 34223
Seen Apr 27, 2002 → Oct 25, 2002 · 2 discs KF4WA
· Advanced · issued Mar 23, 2002, expires Jul 14, 2004
CLIFTON W MC LAIN; SR
713 LYNNDALE ST N, ST PETERSBURG, FL 33703
KF4WA 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.
1997 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mclain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 34193 1997 p.895
1996 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mclain Sr 5l55 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 14191 1996 p.865
1995 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mclain Sr 5355 Citad•i Rd, South Venice, FL 34293 1995 p.863
1994 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mc Lain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 33595 1994 p.780
1993 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton Wmc Lain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice Winter 1993 p.743
1993 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mc Lain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 33595 1993 p.742
1992 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mc Lain S~ 5355 Citadel Rd South Venice, FL 33595 1992 p.683
1991 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mc Lain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 33595 Winter 1991 p.660
1989 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton Wmc Lain Sr 5355 Crtadel Rd, South Venice, FL 33595 Winter 1989 p.610
1988 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton W Mc Lain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 33595 Winter 1988 p.602
1985 → 1987 · 3 editions KF4WA · class A
Clifton Wmc Lain Sr 5355 Citadel Rd, South Venice, FL 33595 Winter 1985 p.582, Winter 1986 p.580, Winter 1987 p.591
1984 · 1 edition KF4WA · class A
Clifton Wmc Lain Sr %38 Richmond Cir, Boca Raton, FL 33432 Winter 1984 p.578
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for KF4WA in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of KF4WA beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.