N9TPB FCC License Search

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

W8LAI HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Oct 12, 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 Oct 12, 2000

Previous holder: ELMER S BARKEL

Held W8LAI Oct 11, 1988 → Oct 11, 1998 · first licensed Oct 11, 1988 as W8LAI · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W8LAI Expired General Oct 11, 1988 → Oct 11, 1998 (expired)

Licensee
ELMER S BARKEL

Address
394 N 120 AVE
HOLLAND, MI 49423
42.7392, -86.0848 (ZIP center) · Grid EN62wr · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Oct 11, 1988

Effective
Oct 11, 1988

Last action
Oct 12, 2000
FCC actions (1)
- Oct 12, 2000 — 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 W8LAI
ELMER S BARKEL
394 N 120 AVE, HOLLAND, MI 49423
42.7392, -86.0848 (ZIP center) · Grid EN62wr · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting W8LAI

1 application listed W8LAI as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Apr 12, 2022	Apr 30, 2022	KK7FHI · Derrick Lai · Vancouver, WA	9	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8LAI in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8LAI beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.