N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 21, 2026) · next update today 8:30 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)

W8GKQ HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 20, 2007.

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 Jul 20, 2007

Previous holder: RAIFORD S STEWARD

Held W8GKQ Oct 22, 1985 → Jul 19, 2005 · first licensed Oct 22, 1985 as W8GKQ · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1952 as W8GKQ, before the FCC's online records

W8GKQ Expired Advanced Oct 22, 1985 → Jul 19, 2005 (expired)

Licensee
RAIFORD S STEWARD

Address
1231 HILDRETH
COLUMBUS, OH 43203
39.9729, -82.9692 (ZIP center) · Grid EM89mx · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Jul 19, 1995

Effective
Jul 19, 1995

Last action
Jul 20, 2007
FCC actions (1)
- Jul 20, 2007 — License expired LIEXP

Callbook Records, 1993–2003

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 26, 1995 → Apr 17, 2003 · 15 discs
W8GKQ · Advanced · issued Jul 19, 1995, expires Jul 19, 2005
RAIFORD S. STEWARD
1231 HILDRETH, COLUMBUS, OH 43203
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 12, 1995 · 4 discs
W8GKQ · Advanced · issued Oct 22, 1985, expires Oct 22, 1995
RAIFORD S STEWARD
1231 HILDRETH AVE, COLUMBUS, OH 43203

Address history

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

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 18, 2026 · 50 snapshots · as W8GKQ
RAIFORD S STEWARD
1231 HILDRETH, COLUMBUS, OH 43203
39.9729, -82.9692 (ZIP center) · Grid EM89mx · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

W8GKQ in the Printed Callbooks, 1909–1997

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.

1970 → 1987 · 11 editions
W8GKQ · class A
Raiford S. Steward
1231 Hildreth, Columbus 3 Oh
Spring 1970 p.518, Fall 1971 p.516, Winter 1972 p.521, Winter 1973 p.521, 1974 p.490, Winter 1976 p.525, Winter 1978 p.796, Winter 1979 p.864, Winter 1982 p.965, Winter 1983 p.997, Winter 1987 p.1057
1969 · 1 edition
W8GKQ · class A
R A I F O R D S . S T E W A R D
1 2 3 1 H I L D R E T H, C O L U M B U S 3 Oh
Summer 1969 p.506
1967 · 1 edition
W8GKQ · class A
Raiford S. Steward
1231 Hildreth, Colu"lbus 3 Oh
Fall 1967 p.503
1966 · 1 edition
W8GKQ
Raiford S. Steward
1231 Hiloreth, Columbus 3 Ohio
Spring 1966 p.465
1952 → 1963 · 8 editions
W8GKQ
Raiford S. Steward
1231 Hildreth A Ve., Columbus, OH
Fall 1952 p.246, Fall 1953 p.255, Fall 1954 p.262, Fall 1955 p.313, Spring 1956 p.309, Fall 1957 p.378, Summer 1958 p.386, Summer 1963 p.485
1937 · 1 edition
W8GKQ
Morris K. Kunins
4915 Spruce St., Phila., PA
Fall 1937 p.57
None · 1 edition
W8GKQ · class A
Raiford S Steward
1231 Hildreth Ave, Columbus
None p.918

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

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