🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 12, 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)
W4ZVB HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Sep 6, 2001.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Last requested Mar 5, 2018 as choice 3:
not granted, that applicant got W4BWW instead.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Sep 6, 2001
Previous holder: JOHN M SIMMONS
Held W4ZVB Sep 5, 1989 → Sep 5, 1999
· first licensed Sep 5, 1989 as W4ZVB
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1969 as W4ZVB, before the FCC's online records
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 Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 13, 2001 · 15 discs W4ZVB
· General · issued Sep 5, 1989, expires Sep 5, 1999
JOHN M. SIMMONS
1957 HAYWOOD RD, HENDERSONVILLE, NC 28739
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as W4ZVB
JOHN M SIMMONS
1957 HAYWOOD RD, HENDERSONVILLE, NC 28739
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.
1990 → 1997 · 6 editions W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 1957 Haywood Rd, Hendersonville, NC 28739 Winter 1990 p.637, Winter 1992 p.715, 1993 p.772, 1994 p.816, 1996 p.906, 1997 p.935
1988 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 501 Lakeside Or, Hendersonville, NC 18739 Winter 1988 p.624
1987 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John Msimmons 501 Lakosid• Dr, Hendmonville, NC 18739 Winter 1987 p.608
1986 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmon~ 501 Lakeside Dr Hendersonvil• Nc 2b7j9 Winter 1986 p.598
1985 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 501 Lakeside Dr, Hendersonville, NC 28739 Winter 1985 p.599
1983 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 501 Lakeside Or, Hendersonville, NC 28739 Winter 1983 p.574
1981 → 1982 · 2 editions W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 501 Lakeside Dr, Hendersonville 1981 p.471, Winter 1982 p.557
1980 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmon~ 501 Lakeside Dr Hendersonville, NC 28719 Winter 1980 p.535
1979 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
Jotn M Sirrvnons 501 Lakesidle Dr, Hendersonville, NC 28739 Winter 1979 p.509
1978 · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 501 Lakeside Dr, Hendersonville, NC 28739 Winter 1978 p.473
1969 → 1976 · 9 editions W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 2325 F I R S T St N, S T Petersburg Fl Summer 1969 p.308, Spring 1970 p.313, Winter 1971 p.312, Fall 1971 p.313, Winter 1972 p.317, Winter 1973 p.317, 1974 p.290, Winter 1975 p.313, Winter 1976 p.320
1953 → 1954 · 3 editions W4ZVB
Jack W. Mccall East Duval Street, Live Oak, FL Fall 1953 p.160, Spring 1954 p.166, Fall 1954 p.158
None · 1 edition W4ZVB · class G
John M Simmons 501 Lakeside Dr, Hendersonville, NC 28739 None p.290
Others Requesting W4ZVB
1 application listed W4ZVB as a choice, newest first.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W4ZVB in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W4ZVB beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.