N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 4, 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

N8VIV HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Aug 12, 2004.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees 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 Aug 12, 2004

Previous holder: DOUGLAS P MAC LACHLAN

Held N8VIV Sep 27, 1994 → Aug 11, 2002 · first licensed Sep 27, 1994 as N8VIV · 1 license · FRN 0003101722

N8VIV Expired Technician Sep 27, 1994 → Aug 11, 2002 (expired)

Licensee
DOUGLAS P MAC LACHLAN

Address
515 W. MELROSE APT. 511
CHICAGO, IL 60657
41.9394, -87.6507 (ZIP center) · Grid EN61ew · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0003101722

Last granted
Sep 27, 1994

Effective
Feb 16, 2000

Last action
Aug 12, 2004
FCC actions (2)
- Aug 12, 2004 — License expired LIEXP
- Feb 16, 2000 — License modified LIMOD

Address history

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

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as N8VIV
DOUGLAS P MAC LACHLAN
515 W. MELROSE APT. 511, CHICAGO, IL 60657
41.9394, -87.6507 (ZIP center) · Grid EN61ew · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting N8VIV

1 application listed N8VIV as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Apr 8, 2025	Apr 26, 2025	KJ5KVM · Ben Holcomb · Richmond, TX	5	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for N8VIV in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N8VIV beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.