N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 14, 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)

W6GBA HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Oct 7, 2026.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Feb 15, 2024 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got K6GBA instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Oct 7, 2026

Previous holder: GEORGE PAPALIAS

Held W6GBA Dec 18, 1984 → Oct 6, 2024 · first licensed Dec 18, 1984 as W6GBA · 1 license · FRN 0001900547

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 W6GBA

1 application listed W6GBA as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W6GBAResult
Feb 15, 2024 Mar 4, 2024 AJ6SV · KENNY HERALAL MR · VICTORVILLE, CA 2Not granted They got K6GBA (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W6GBA in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W6GBA beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.