N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 21, 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 · old CB calls like KHC1939 or 18Q3518 (1962–63 CB call books) · (205) 546-1767 (1990s CB directory phones)

W8VSB HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 21, 2009.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jan 6, 2015 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got N8VSB instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Jun 21, 2009

Previous holder: KARL KOELLA

Held W8VSB Sep 15, 1987 → Jun 20, 2007 · first licensed Sep 15, 1987 as W8VSB · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1941 as W8VSB, 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.
W8VSB 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 W8VSB

1 application listed W8VSB as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W8VSBResult
Jan 6, 2015 Jan 24, 2015 KD7OUN · Ronald S Sweatte · Spokane, WA 2Not granted They got N8VSB (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W8VSB in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W8VSB beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.