N9TPB FCC License Search

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

W8BGH HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 30, 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 30, 2000

Previous holder: CARL J LUDWIG

Held W8BGH Apr 22, 1998 → Nov 29, 1998 · first licensed Apr 22, 1998 as W8BGH · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W8BGH Canceled Advanced Apr 22, 1998 → Nov 29, 1998 (canceled)

Licensee
CARL J LUDWIG

Address
441 SMITH
BIRMINGHAM, MI 48009-2026
42.5440, -83.2177 (ZIP center) · Grid EN82jn · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Apr 22, 1998

Effective
Apr 22, 1998

Last action
Mar 25, 1999

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 W8BGH
CARL J LUDWIG
441 SMITH, BIRMINGHAM, MI 48009-2026
42.5440, -83.2177 (ZIP center) · Grid EN82jn · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting W8BGH

1 application listed W8BGH as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Jan 19, 2016	Feb 6, 2016	KE7DUY · Barry G Hatch · Pullman, WA	8	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8BGH in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8BGH beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.