N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 4, 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

W6MBY HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Aug 17, 2000.

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 Aug 17, 2000

Previous holder: ORLAN W TOWNSEND

Held W6MBY Aug 16, 1988 → Aug 16, 1998 · first licensed Aug 16, 1988 as W6MBY · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W6MBY Expired General Aug 16, 1988 → Aug 16, 1998 (expired)

Licensee
ORLAN W TOWNSEND

Address
3840 LUSK DR
SACRAMENTO, CA 95864
38.5840, -121.3758 (ZIP center) · Grid CM98ho · CQ 3 · ITU 6 · map ↗

Last granted
Aug 16, 1988

Effective
Aug 16, 1988

Last action
Aug 17, 2000
FCC actions (1)
- Aug 17, 2000 — 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 W6MBY
ORLAN W TOWNSEND
3840 LUSK DR, SACRAMENTO, CA 95864
38.5840, -121.3758 (ZIP center) · Grid CM98ho · CQ 3 · ITU 6 · map ↗

Others requesting W6MBY

1 application listed W6MBY as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Apr 2, 2019	Apr 20, 2019	KN6AAG · Michael C Beeler · Corona, CA	6	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W6MBY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W6MBY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.