N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 6:02 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 9, 2026) · next update today 7:15 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)

W8NBP HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Feb 2, 2022.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jan 13, 2000 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Feb 2, 2022

Previous holder: RANDALL L SHAULL

Held W8NBP Sep 15, 1987 → Feb 1, 2020 · first licensed Mar 30, 1984 as KB8IR · 3 licenses · FRN 0003090743
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1936 as W8NBP, before the FCC's online records

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

Previous holder: ROBERT M SHAULL

Held W8NBP Sep 15, 1987 → Aug 9, 1999 · first licensed Mar 30, 1984 as KB8IR · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1936 as W8NBP, before the FCC's online records

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.
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
W8NBP 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.

Others Requesting W8NBP

3 applications listed W8NBP as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W8NBPResult
Jan 13, 2000 Jan 31, 2000 KG9QF · Randall L Shaull · Granger, IN 1Granted Granted this call
Nov 8, 1999 Nov 26, 1999 KG9QF · RANDALL L SHAULL · GRANGER, IN 1Dismissed Application dismissed
Sep 20, 1999 Oct 8, 1999 KB8IR · RANDALL L SHAULL · Granger, IN 1Dismissed Application dismissed

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8NBP in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8NBP beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.