N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 8:33 am CDT · next update today 9:45 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)

W5OBY HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 23, 2002.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Jun 23, 2002

Previous holder: ERNEST R ARCHAMBEAU JR

Held W5OBY Mar 27, 1984 → Jun 22, 2000 · first licensed Mar 27, 1984 as W5OBY · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1948 as W5OBY, 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.
W5OBY 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.

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5OBY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5OBY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.