🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 8, 2026) · next update today 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)
W5VNY HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 11, 2022.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 11, 2022
Previous holder: H LANCE GORDON
Held W5VNY Jul 10, 1990 → Jul 10, 2020
· first licensed Jul 10, 1990 as W5VNY
· 1 license · FRN 0003829850 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1980 as W5VNY, 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 Oct 31, 2000 → Apr 17, 2003 · 6 discs W5VNY
· Advanced · issued Jul 8, 2000, expires Jul 10, 2010
H LANCE GORDON .
15519 BOWSPRIT RD, HOUSTON, TX 77062
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 2, 2000 · 13 discs W5VNY
· Advanced · issued Jul 10, 1990, expires Jul 10, 2000
H LANCE GORDON
15519 BOWSPRIT RD, HOUSTON, TX 77062
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen May 27, 2010 → Oct 4, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as W5VNY
H LANCE GORDON
4528 INTELCO LOOP SE APT 227, LACEY, WA 98503-5906
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.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5VNY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5VNY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.