N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 5, 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

W8FRE HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Oct 16, 2009.

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 Oct 16, 2009

Previous holder: GEORGE A WHINGHTER

Held W8FRE Oct 15, 1997 → Oct 15, 2007 · first licensed Oct 15, 1997 as W8FRE · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W8FRE Expired Advanced Oct 15, 1997 → Oct 15, 2007 (expired)

Licensee
GEORGE A WHINGHTER

Address
5120 OLD OAK TRAIL 42
CINCINNATI, OH 45238
39.1092, -84.6088 (ZIP center) · Grid EM79qc · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Oct 15, 1997

Effective
Oct 15, 1997

Last action
Oct 16, 2009
FCC actions (1)
- Oct 16, 2009 — 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 W8FRE
GEORGE A WHINGHTER
5120 OLD OAK TRAIL 42, CINCINNATI, OH 45238
39.1092, -84.6088 (ZIP center) · Grid EM79qc · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting W8FRE

2 applications listed W8FRE as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Sep 16, 2025	Oct 4, 2025	KD3BXD · French Creek Amateur Radio Society · Utica, PA	23	Granted
Jan 4, 2021	Jan 22, 2021	KJ7TGP · Brian D Free · SOUTH JORDAN, UT	10	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8FRE in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8FRE beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.