N9TPB FCC License Search
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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)

W4PBS HAM

👀 Looked up 1 time by 1 person on this site

⏳ Not available yet — opens for vanity requests Oct 7, 2028, two years after the license was canceled (Oct 6, 2026).
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Mar 15, 2022 as choice 3: application dismissed.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record

🗓 Active on 5 nets · last heard Oct 15, 2026

Previous holder: JASON M WRIGHT

Held W4PBS Jan 10, 2006 → Oct 6, 2026 · first licensed Feb 20, 1995 as KE4VVA · 3 licenses · FRN 0011360351

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.

Previous holder: FREDERICK FISCHER

Held W4PBS Oct 5, 1993 → Oct 5, 2003 · first licensed Oct 5, 1993 as W4PBS · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1949 as W4PBS, 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.
W4PBS 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 W4PBS

2 applications listed W4PBS as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W4PBSResult
Mar 15, 2022 Apr 2, 2022 KO4PBS · EARL E BRANNON 610 · SPRING HILL, FL 3Dismissed Application dismissed
Dec 6, 2005 Dec 24, 2005 KE4VVA · JASON M WRIGHT · LYNCHBURG, VA 1Granted Granted this call

Nets

NetWhenFrequencyRoleTimesLast
EYEBANK 40Weekdays 7:00 AM ET7238Checked in182026-10-15
EYEBANK 40Fri 7:00 AM · Mon 7:15 AM CTWB4CVAChecked in22026-09-28
YLSYSTEM - MOONBEAMWeekdays 2:00 PM ET14.332Checked in12026-09-22
the N0SWR netDaily 5:45 PM · Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 5:15 PM · Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 6:00 PM CT7.185Checked in12026-09-21
YLSystem Moonbeam WarriorsSun 3:45 PM ET14.332Checked in12026-09-20

From nets logged with NetLogger since the start of collection.

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W4PBS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W4PBS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.