N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 5, 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

N3DEC HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 3, 2021.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jun 8, 2005 as choice 14: not granted, that applicant got N2DEC instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Mar 3, 2021

Previous holder: JOHN MCDOWELL

Held N3DEC Jan 22, 2009 → Mar 2, 2019 · first licensed Jan 22, 2009 as N3DEC · 1 license · FRN 0018445114

N3DEC Expired Advanced Jan 22, 2009 → Mar 2, 2019 (expired)

Licensee
JOHN MCDOWELL

Address
363 S HIGHLAND AVE APT 503
PITTSBURGH, PA 15206
40.4723, -79.9132 (ZIP center) · Grid FN00bl · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0018445114

Last granted
Jan 22, 2009

Effective
Jan 22, 2009

Last action
Mar 3, 2021
FCC actions (3)
- Mar 3, 2021 — License expired LIEXP
- Jan 22, 2009 — License renewed LIREN
- Jan 22, 2009 — FCC action LITIN

Address history

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

Seen May 27, 2010 → Oct 4, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as N3DEC
JOHN MCDOWELL
363 S HIGHLAND AVE APT 503, PITTSBURGH, PA 15206
40.4723, -79.9132 (ZIP center) · Grid FN00bl · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗
Seen Nov 7, 2004 · 1 snapshot · as N3DEC
JOHN MCDOWELL
363 S HIGHLAND 503, PITTSBURGH, PA 15206
40.4723, -79.9132 (ZIP center) · Grid FN00bl · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting N3DEC

1 application listed N3DEC as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	N3DEC	Result
Jun 8, 2005	Jun 26, 2005	N1UJP · DONALD E CAHILL · Hanson, MA	14	Not granted	They got N2DEC (choice 13)

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for N3DEC in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N3DEC beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.