N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 4, 2026) · next update today 8:30 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

W5VGS HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Feb 18, 2009.

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 Feb 18, 2009

Previous holder: WILLIAM M HOWE

Held W5VGS Feb 17, 1997 → Feb 17, 2007 · first licensed Feb 17, 1997 as W5VGS · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W5VGS Expired General Feb 17, 1997 → Feb 17, 2007 (expired)

Licensee
WILLIAM M HOWE

Address
5109 COLORADO BLVD
FORT WORTH, TX 76180
32.8407, -97.2242 (ZIP center) · Grid EM12ju · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Last granted
Feb 17, 1997

Effective
Feb 17, 1997

Last action
Feb 18, 2009
FCC actions (1)
- Feb 18, 2009 — License expired LIEXP

Address history

From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as W5VGS
WILLIAM M HOWE
5109 COLORADO BLVD, FORT WORTH, TX 76180
32.8407, -97.2242 (ZIP center) · Grid EM12ju · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Others requesting W5VGS

2 applications listed W5VGS as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Jan 20, 2021	Feb 7, 2021	KI5NBK · Victor Perez · Pflugerville, TX	4	Granted
Jul 25, 2013	Aug 12, 2013	KF5WNF · Vincent G Scaramuzzo · Corpus Christi, TX	3	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5VGS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5VGS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.