N9TPB
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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)W5VPS HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Dec 5, 2008.
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 Dec 5, 2008
Previous holder: WALTER M LUCE
Held W5VPS Jul 7, 1987 → Dec 4, 2006
· first licensed Jul 7, 1987 as W5VPS
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1971 as K4GGE, before the FCC's online records
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- Licensee
- WALTER M LUCE
- Address
- 2725 WALDRON RD 35
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78418
- Last granted
- Dec 4, 1996
- Effective
- Dec 4, 1996
- Last action
- Dec 5, 2008
FCC actions (1)
- Dec 5, 2008 — License expired LIEXP
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.
- Seen Apr 4, 1997 → Apr 17, 2003 · 12 discs
W5VPS · Advanced · issued Dec 4, 1996, expires Dec 4, 2006
WALTER M. LUCE
2725 WALDRON RD 35, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78418 - Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 27, 1996 · 7 discs
W5VPS · Advanced · issued Jul 7, 1987, expires Jul 7, 1997
WALTER M LUCE
2628 ENCINA DR 4C, ROCKPORT, TX 78382
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
- Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as W5VPS
WALTER M LUCE
2725 WALDRON RD 35, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78418
W5VPS 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.
- 1994 · 1 edition
W5VPS · class A
Walter M Luce
Qth Wanted By Callbook Un 00000 Kb5v Charles R Alderman, Pob 712, Point Comfort, TX 77978
1994 p.960 - 1980 → 1993 · 7 editions
W5VPS · class A
Walter M Luce
1909 Bayshore Dr, Rockport, TX 78382
Winter 1980 p.632, 1981 p.568, Winter 1982 p.659, Winter 1983 p.680, Winter 1984 p.707, Winter 1986 p.707, Winter 1993 p.914 - 1979 · 1 edition
W5VPS · class A
Walter M Luce
1909 Baysltore Dr, Roci<Port, TX 78382
Winter 1979 p.92 - 1946 · 1 edition
W5VPS
Lewis W. Virgin
7418 Verona Blvd., Pitts- W8vtu-Helll7 Jackson, Babula, Mich, 258 Ashley, Bujjalo, N. Y., ~til=l~'j ... B~~, 1 11i·8 8 ~~1mst~.t·kri~~~~:, . ~ic!
Summer 1946 p.172 - 1941 · 1 edition
W5VPS
Lewis W
Virgin, 7418 Verona Blvd., Pitts-
Winter 1941 p.179
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W5VPS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W5VPS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.