🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 15, 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)
Active until Jul 2, 2034 · same FCC Registration Number (FRN) · GMRS covers the licensee's immediate family
General classlicensed since 1988 (38 yrs)N5LXN since 1988 · previously KG5RNVPineville, LAGrid EM31siLoTW usereQSL AGGMRS WSDN7727 repeaters within 50 mi
🔒 Not available — currently licensed, through Mar 3, 2027. If it isn't renewed, it opens for vanity requests Mar 4, 2029.
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 → Oct 8, 1999 · 10 discs N5LXN
· Technician Plus · issued Jan 12, 1988, expires Jan 12, 1998
LUKE D. PURDY
BOX 22, PINEVILLE, LA 71361
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs N5LXN
· Technician · issued Jan 12, 1988, expires Jan 12, 1998
LUKE D PURDY
BOX 22, PINEVILLE, LA 71361
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Feb 15, 2017 → Oct 11, 2026 · 45 snapshots · as KG5RNV
LUKE D PURDY
114 LILLY SCOTT DR, PINEVILLE, LA 71360
Held N5LXN Jan 12, 1988 → Jan 12, 1998
· first licensed Jan 12, 1988 as N5LXN
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
N5LXNExpiredTechnician PlusJan 12, 1988 → Jan 12, 1998 (expired)
Licensee
LUKE D PURDY
Address
BOX 22 PINEVILLE, LA 71361
Last granted
Jan 12, 1988
Effective
Jan 12, 1988
Last action
Jan 13, 2000
FCC actions (1)
Jan 13, 2000 — License expired LIEXP
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 Oct 31, 1994 → Oct 8, 1999 · 10 discs N5LXN
· Technician Plus · issued Jan 12, 1988, expires Jan 12, 1998
LUKE D. PURDY
BOX 22, PINEVILLE, LA 71361
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs N5LXN
· Technician · issued Jan 12, 1988, expires Jan 12, 1998
LUKE D PURDY
BOX 22, PINEVILLE, LA 71361
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 N5LXN
LUKE D PURDY
BOX 22, PINEVILLE, LA 71361
N5LXN 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 N5LXN · class T
Luke Dpurdy Box 11, Pineville, LA 71361 1997 p.1031
1989 → 1994 · 3 editions N5LXN · class T
Luke 0 Purdy Box 22, Pineville, LA 71361 Winter 1989 p.706, Winter 1993 p.849, 1994 p.896
Vanity Applications Filed by N5LXN
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 N5LXN in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N5LXN beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.