N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 8, 2026) · next update today 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)

W3RLK HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Dec 11, 2011.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Nov 22, 1999 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Dec 11, 2011

Previous holder: RUTH L KARENBAUER

Held W3RLK Dec 10, 1999 → Dec 10, 2009 · first licensed Nov 9, 1999 as KB3EIY · 2 licenses · FRN 0003362209

W3RLK Expired Technician · vanity Dec 10, 1999 → Dec 10, 2009 (expired)

Licensee
RUTH L KARENBAUER

Address
801 CRESCENT AVE
ELLWOOD CITY, PA 16117
40.8718, -80.2562 (ZIP center) · Grid EN90uu · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0003362209

Previous call
KB3EIY

Last granted
Dec 10, 1999

Effective
Dec 10, 1999

Last action
Dec 13, 2011
FCC actions (2)
- Dec 13, 2011 — License expired LIEXP
- Dec 10, 1999 — License issued LIISS
KB3EIY Canceled Technician Nov 9, 1999 → Dec 10, 1999 (canceled)

Licensee
RUTH L KARENBAUER

Address
801 CRESCENT AVE
ELLWOOD CITY, PA 16117
40.8718, -80.2562 (ZIP center) · Grid EN90uu · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0003362209

Last granted
Nov 9, 1999

Effective
Nov 9, 1999

Last action
Dec 10, 1999
FCC actions (2)
- Dec 10, 1999 — License canceled LICAN
- Nov 9, 1999 — License issued LIISS

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 2, 2000 → Apr 17, 2003 · 7 discs
W3RLK · Technician · issued Dec 10, 1999, expires Dec 10, 2009 · previously KB3EIY
RUTH L. KARENBAUER
801 CRESCENT AVE, ELLWOOD CITY, PA 16117

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 · 96 snapshots · as KB3EIY
RUTH L KARENBAUER
801 CRESCENT AVE, ELLWOOD CITY, PA 16117
40.8718, -80.2562 (ZIP center) · Grid EN90uu · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

W3RLK 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.

1953 → 1956 · 5 editions
W3RLK
Francis L. Meek
3545 North 21st St., Philadelphia, PA
Fall 1953 p.124, Spring 1954 p.126, Fall 1954 p.115, Fall 1955 p.147, Spring 1956 p.134
1936 · 1 edition
W3RLK
Wm.h. Davis
Broadway Pier, Baltimore, Md. Lantic City, NJ
Spring 1936 p.167

Others Requesting W3RLK

1 application listed W3RLK as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	W3RLK	Result
Nov 22, 1999	Dec 10, 1999	KB3EIY · RUTH L KARENBAUER · ELLWOOD CITY, PA	1	Granted	Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W3RLK in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W3RLK beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.