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

N9SPB HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 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 Mar 10, 2005

Previous holder: RICHARD D HOBBS

Held N9SPB Mar 9, 1993 → Mar 9, 2003 · first licensed Mar 9, 1993 as N9SPB · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

N9SPB Expired Technician Mar 9, 1993 → Mar 9, 2003 (expired)

Licensee
RICHARD D HOBBS

Address
1649 N KELLOGG ST
GALESBURG, IL 61401
40.9452, -90.3866 (ZIP center) · Grid EN40tw · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Last granted
Mar 9, 1993

Effective
Mar 9, 1993

Last action
Mar 10, 2005
FCC actions (1)
- Mar 10, 2005 — License expired LIEXP

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 N9SPB
RICHARD D HOBBS
1649 N KELLOGG ST, GALESBURG, IL 61401
40.9452, -90.3866 (ZIP center) · Grid EN40tw · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Others requesting N9SPB

2 applications listed N9SPB as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Sep 29, 2022	Oct 17, 2022	KE2ACL · Gianfranco Di Maio · Eatontown, NJ	2	Dismissed
Apr 26, 2010	May 14, 2010	KD0GHJ · Sean Boland · Colorado Springs, CO	4	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for N9SPB in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of N9SPB beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.