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)

W5GDY HAM

⏳ Not available yet — opens for vanity requests Dec 10, 2027, two years after the license was canceled (Dec 9, 2025).
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested May 19, 2021 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record

Previous holder: Blane Hebert

Held W5GDY Jun 7, 2021 → Dec 9, 2025 · first licensed Feb 28, 2002 as KC0MLX · 3 licenses · FRN 0006605232

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: L H BENNETT

Held W5GDY Oct 7, 1986 → Jun 28, 2006 · first licensed Oct 7, 1986 as W5GDY · 1 license · FRN 0003912979
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1955 as W5GDY, 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.
W5GDY 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 W5GDY

1 application listed W5GDY as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W5GDYResult
May 19, 2021 Jun 6, 2021 KC0MLX · Blane Hebert · Loxley, AL 1Granted Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5GDY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5GDY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.