🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 8, 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 · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)
W7OTA HAM
General classlicensed since 1992 (34 yrs)W7OTA since 2005 · previously N7ENSShow Low, AZGrid DM44xhLoTW user17 repeaters within 50 mi
🔒 Not available — currently licensed, through Oct 13, 2025. If it isn't renewed, it opens for vanity requests Oct 14, 2027.
📬 QSL:LoTW user · last upload Oct 5, 2026 as previous call N7ENS· none yet as W7OTA
· eQSL AG as N7ENS
· QRZ · HamQTH
📝 W7OTA has filed vanity applications before — latest filed Mar 28, 2005 · what was requested
Currently held by DONALD W LETCHER
· 1 holder on record
Current holder: DONALD W LETCHER
Held W7OTA Apr 15, 2005 → present
· first licensed Apr 21, 1992 as N7ENS
· 2 licenses · FRN 0006439483 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as WD5JNY, before the FCC's online records
W7OTAActiveGeneral · vanityApr 15, 2005 → expires Oct 13, 2025
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 25, 2002 → Apr 17, 2003 · 2 discs N7ENS
· General · issued Apr 26, 2002, expires Apr 26, 2012
· previously WD5JNY
DONALD W LETCHER
PO BOX 1556, SHOW LOW, AZ 85901
Seen Mar 9, 1998 → Apr 27, 2002 · 9 discs N7ENS
· General · issued Apr 21, 1992, expires Apr 21, 2002
· previously WD5JNY(Technician)
DONALD W. LETCHER
PO BOX 1556, SHOW LOW, AZ 85901
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs N7ENS
· General · issued Apr 21, 1992, expires Apr 21, 2002
· previously WD5JNY(Technician)
DONALD W LETCHER
POB 1556, SHOW LOW, AZ 85901
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 · 95 snapshots · as N7ENS
DONALD W LETCHER
PO Box 1556 SHOW LOW, AZ 85901
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.
1986 → 1987 · 2 editions W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 19 Ave Ne, Seattle, WA 98115 Winter 1986 p.967, Winter 1987 p.980
1985 · 1 edition W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 29 Ave Ne, Seattle, WA 98115 Winter 1985 p.967
1984 · 1 edition W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 19 Ave Ne, Seattle, WA 98115 Winter 1984 p.965
1982 → 1983 · 2 editions W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 29 Ave Ne, Seattle, WA 98115 Winter 1982 p.898, Winter 1983 p.929
1979 → 1980 · 2 editions W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 29th Av N E, Seattle, WA 98115 Winter 1979 p.798, Winter 1980 p.853
1976 · 1 edition W7OTA
Cletus A Bogner 2418 E Harvard St, Phoenix 85008 Az Winter 1976 p.490
1974 → 1975 · 2 editions W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 29th Av N E, Seattle 98115 Wa 1974 p.454, Winter 1975 p.479
1971 · 1 edition W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan &83& 29th Av N E, Seattle 98115 Fall 1971 p.480
1959 → 1969 · 10 editions W7OTA · class A
J. Alan Duncan 6836 29th Av.n.e, Seattle 15 Wash Spring 1959 p.373, Spring 1961 p.435, Fall 1961 p.450, Fall 1962 p.430, Summer 1963 p.447, Fall 1964 p.418, Summer 1965 p.429, Spring 1966 p.431, Fall 1967 p.471, Summer 1969 p.475
1958 · 1 edition W7OTA
J. Alan Duncan 6836 29th Avenue N. E., Seattle 15, WA Summer 1958 p.362
1952 → 1957 · 7 editions W7OTA
J. Alan Duncan 6016 - 45th Avenue N . E ., Seattle 5, WA Fall 1952 p.232, Fall 1953 p.240, Spring 1954 p.246, Fall 1954 p.245, Fall 1955 p.291, Spring 1956 p.286, Fall 1957 p.352
None · 1 edition W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 29 Ave Ne, Seattle, WA 98115 None p.851
None · 1 edition W7OTA · class A
J Alan Duncan 6836 29th Av Ne, Seattle None p.454
Vanity Applications Filed by W7OTA
Calls this licensee has asked the FCC for, newest first, in their order of preference. The FCC processes applications 18 days after filing; "likely award" is our estimate from every pending application in filing order.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W7OTA in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W7OTA beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.
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