N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 11, 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)

W5SBY HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Apr 28, 2005.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Feb 17, 2006 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got W9SGE instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Apr 28, 2005

Previous holder: THOMAS F UNDERWOOD

Held W5SBY Apr 27, 1993 → Apr 27, 2003 · first licensed Apr 27, 1993 as W5SBY · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 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.

Others Requesting W5SBY

1 application listed W5SBY as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W5SBYResult
Feb 17, 2006 Mar 7, 2006 KI6CNJ · SHAWN B YEE · SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2Not granted They got W9SGE (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5SBY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5SBY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.