🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:16 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 22, 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 · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
N9LBL HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since May 1, 2003.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
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 → Apr 17, 2003 · 17 discs N9LBL
· Technician · issued Oct 24, 1994, expires Apr 30, 2001
JOHN W. SHANK
R 3 BOX 244A, PERU, IN 46970
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs N9LBL
· Technician · issued Apr 30, 1991, expires Apr 30, 2001
JOHN W SHANK
383 E 5TH ST, PERU, IN 46970
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 N9LBL
JOHN W SHANK
R 3 BOX 244A, PERU, IN 46970
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 N9LBL · class T
John Wshank Rt 3 Box 244-~ Peru 1997 p.1905
1996 · 1 edition N9LBL · class T
John W Shank Rt 3 Box 144-A Peru, IN 46970 1996 p.1838
1994 → 1995 · 2 editions N9LBL · class T
John W Shank 383 E 5th St, Peru, IN 46970 1994 p.1639, 1995 p.1779
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for N9LBL in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N9LBL beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.