🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 12, 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)
📝 N5LNU has filed vanity applications before — latest filed Mar 20, 2012 · what was requested
Currently held by JUAN R SOSA
· 1 holder on record
Current holder: JUAN R SOSA
Held N5LNU Dec 11, 1990 → present
· first licensed Dec 11, 1990 as N5LNU
· 1 license · FRN 0006526487 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1988 as KA5VJP, before the FCC's online records
N5LNUActiveAmateur ExtraDec 11, 1990 → expires Feb 22, 2032
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 27, 2002 → Apr 17, 2003 · 3 discs N5LNU
· Amateur Extra · issued Feb 22, 2002, expires Feb 22, 2012
· previously KA5VJP
JUAN R SOSA
2410 STA MARIA AVE, LAREDO, TX 78040
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Nov 1, 2001 · 16 discs N5LNU
· Amateur Extra · issued Dec 11, 1990, expires Dec 11, 2000
· previously KA5VJP(Technician)
JUAN R. SOSA
2410 STA MARIA AVE, LAREDO, TX 78040
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 N5LNU
JUAN R SOSA
2410 STA MARIA AVE, LAREDO, TX 78040
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.
1996 · 1 edition N5LNU · class E
Juan R Sosa 2410 Sta Maria Ave, Laredo, TX 78040 1996 p.1001
1991 → 1992 · 2 editions N5LNU · class E
Juan R Sosa 1410 Sta Maria Ave, Laredo •, TX 78040 Winter 1991 p.764, 1992 p.788
1990 · 1 edition N5LNU · class T
Juan R Sosa 2410 Sta Maria Ave, Laredo, TX 18040 Winter 1990 p.712
1989 · 1 edition N5LNU · class T
Juan R Sosa 1410 Sta Maria Ave, Laredo, TX 78040 Winter 1989 p.704
Vanity Applications Filed by N5LNU
Calls this licensee has asked the FCC for, newest first, in their order of preference. The FCC processes applications 18 days after filing; "likely award" is our estimate from every pending application in filing order.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for N5LNU in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N5LNU beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.