N9TPB FCC License Search
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W9EDS HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 6, 2024.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Oct 18, 2002 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 2 holders on record · available since Nov 6, 2024

Previous holder: DARREN R ROUSAR

Held W9EDS Aug 16, 1985 → Nov 5, 2022 · first licensed Aug 16, 1985 as W9EDS · 2 licenses · FRN 0005232665
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1938 as W9EDS, 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: MILTON R ROUSAR

Held W9EDS Aug 16, 1985 → Nov 7, 2001 · first licensed Aug 16, 1985 as W9EDS · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1938 as W9EDS, 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.
W9EDS 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 W9EDS

2 applications listed W9EDS as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W9EDSResult
Oct 18, 2002 Nov 5, 2002 KA0SHQ · DARREN R ROUSAR · SHOREWOOD, MN 1Granted Granted this call
Sep 30, 2002 Oct 18, 2002 KA0SHQ · DARREN R ROUSAR · SHOREWOOD, MN 1Dismissed Application dismissed

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9EDS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9EDS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.