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

W7AKU HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 3, 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 Nov 3, 2000

Previous holder: RICHARD L SMITH

Held W7AKU → Nov 2, 1998 · first licensed as W7AKU · 2 licenses · FRN 0003463486

📦 Moved: , None → High Rolls, NM

W5AKU Active Amateur Extra · vanity Apr 19, 2000 → expires Nov 2, 2028

Licensee
RICHARD L SMITH

Address
PO Box 422
HIGH ROLLS, NM 88325-0422
32.8556, -105.8533 (ZIP center) · Grid DM72bu · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

FRN
0003463486

Previous call
W7AKU (Advanced)

Last granted
Aug 6, 2018

Effective
Aug 6, 2018

Last action
Aug 6, 2018
FCC actions (3)
- Aug 6, 2018 — License renewed LIREN
- Aug 5, 2008 — License renewed LIREN
- Apr 19, 2000 — License modified LIMOD
W7AKU Canceled Advanced → Nov 2, 1998 (canceled)

Licensee
RICHARD L SMITH

Address

Last granted

Effective

Last action

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 W7AKU
RICHARD L SMITH
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as W5AKU
RICHARD L SMITH
PO Box 422
HIGH ROLLS, NM 88325-0422
32.8556, -105.8533 (ZIP center) · Grid DM72bu · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

Others requesting W7AKU

2 applications listed W7AKU as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Oct 22, 2018	Nov 9, 2018	KJ7AOY · Kenneth J Archer · Marana, AZ	8	Granted
Sep 17, 2014	Oct 5, 2014	AB3HN · Brian K Miller · Lancaster, PA	6	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W7AKU in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W7AKU beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.