N9TPB
FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 21, 2026) · next update today 8:30 am CDT
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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)N9CRR HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 10, 2005.
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 Nov 10, 2005
Previous holder: EDWIN J DE COSTA
Held N9CRR May 29, 1984 → Nov 9, 2003
· first licensed May 29, 1984 as N9CRR
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1980 as KA9FUV, before the FCC's online records
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- Licensee
- EDWIN J DE COSTA
- Address
- 1540 N LAKE SHORE DR
CHICAGO, IL 60610
- Previous call
- KA9FUV (General)
- Last granted
- Nov 9, 1993
- Effective
- Nov 9, 1993
- Last action
- Jan 4, 2006
FCC actions (1)
- Jan 4, 2006 — 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 May 3, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 18 discs
N9CRR · Advanced · issued Nov 9, 1993, expires Nov 9, 2003 · previously KA9FUV (General)
EDWIN J. DE COSTA
1540 N LAKE SHORE DR, CHICAGO, IL 60610 - Seen Sep 9, 1993 · 1 disc
N9CRR · Advanced · issued May 29, 1984, expires May 29, 1994 · previously KA9FUV (General)
EDWIN J DE COSTA
1540 N LAKE SHORE DR, CHICAGO, IL 60610
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
- Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 18, 2026 · 50 snapshots · as N9CRR
EDWIN J DE COSTA
1540 N LAKE SHORE DR, CHICAGO, IL 60610
N9CRR 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.
- 1986 → 1991 · 3 editions
N9CRR · class A
Edwin J De Costa
1540 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60610
Winter 1986 p.1133, Winter 1990 p.1222, Winter 1991 p.1324 - 1985 · 1 edition
N9CRR · class A
Edwin J De Cost~ 1540 N Lake Shore Dr
Chicago Il Ooolo
Winter 1985 p.1135 - None → 1984 · 2 editions
N9CRR · class G
Edwin J De Costa
1540 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago
None p.1010, Winter 1984 p.1134
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for N9CRR in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N9CRR beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.