N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 14, 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)

W3DIP HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since May 23, 2008.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jun 10, 2019 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got K3DIP instead.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since May 23, 2008

Previous holder: FIELDING O L WATERS

Held W3DIP Aug 19, 1986 → May 22, 2006 · first licensed Aug 19, 1986 as W3DIP · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1938 as W3DIP, before the FCC's online records

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.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
W3DIP 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.

Others Requesting W3DIP

1 application listed W3DIP as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W3DIPResult
Jun 10, 2019 Jun 28, 2019 KC3NPR · Thomas A Dippold · St. Marys, PA 2Not granted They got K3DIP (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W3DIP in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W3DIP beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.