N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 6:02 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 2, 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

W8DEW HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jan 30, 2018.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. 1 pending application already lists it (first filed Sep 21, 2026) — see requests.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Jan 30, 2018

Previous holder: JERRY J PETRANEK

Held W8DEW Oct 31, 2005 → Jan 29, 2016 · first licensed Oct 31, 2005 as W8DEW · 1 license · FRN 0014204697

Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Others requesting W8DEW

3 applications listed W8DEW as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #Status
Sep 21, 2026 Oct 9, 2026 (on or after) KC1YWQ · Olivia Hagedorn · Cambridge, MA 4Pending
Mar 31, 2025 Apr 18, 2025 KD2UNM · Douglas E Wolfe · Forked River, NJ 3Dismissed
Feb 21, 2020 Mar 10, 2020 KN4CYQ · DON E WARD · CINCINNATI, OH 10Dismissed

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8DEW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8DEW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.