N9TPB FCC License Search

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W9FFR HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Apr 2, 2023.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Mar 14, 2011 as choice 1: granted.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Apr 2, 2023

Previous holder: James B Holston Jr

Held W9FFR Apr 1, 2011 → Apr 1, 2021 · first licensed Jan 20, 2011 as KF5JOL · 2 licenses · FRN 0020537098
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1949 as W9FFR, before the FCC's online records

W9FFR Expired Amateur Extra · vanity Apr 1, 2011 → Apr 1, 2021 (expired)

Licensee
James B Holston Jr

Address
1001 Purple Aster Dr
Bernalillo, NM 87004
35.3689, -106.5972 (ZIP center) · Grid DM65qi · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

FRN
0020537098

Previous call
KF5JOL (General)

Last granted
Apr 1, 2011

Effective
Feb 27, 2012

Last action
Apr 4, 2023
FCC actions (4)
- Apr 4, 2023 — License expired LIEXP
- Feb 27, 2012 — License modified LIMOD
- Apr 1, 2011 — Vanity call sign granted VANGRT
- Apr 1, 2011 — License issued LIISS
KF5JOL Canceled General Jan 20, 2011 → Apr 1, 2011 (canceled)

Licensee
James B Holston Jr

Address
1001 Purple Aster Dr
Bernalillo, NM 87004
35.3689, -106.5972 (ZIP center) · Grid DM65qi · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

FRN
0020537098

Last granted
Jan 20, 2011

Effective
Feb 28, 2011

Last action
Apr 1, 2011
FCC actions (4)
- Apr 1, 2011 — License canceled LICAN
- Feb 28, 2011 — License modified LIMOD
- Jan 20, 2011 — License issued LIISS
- Jan 20, 2011 — Systematic call sign granted SYSGRT

Address history

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

Seen Oct 17, 2011 → Oct 25, 2026 · 98 snapshots · as KF5JOL
James B Holston Jr
1001 Purple Aster Dr, Bernalillo, NM 87004
35.3689, -106.5972 (ZIP center) · Grid DM65qi · CQ 4 · ITU 7 · map ↗

W9FFR 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.

1959 · 1 edition
W9FFR
James B. Holston Jr.
812 South Tenth St., Lafayette, IN
Spring 1959 p.437
1957 → 1958 · 2 editions
W9FFR
J A M E S B. Holston J R .
812 South Tenth St., Lafayette, IN
Fall 1957 p.412, Summer 1958 p.424
1956 · 1 edition
W9FFR
James B. Holston Jr.
2808 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL
Spring 1956 p.342
1951 → 1955 · 3 editions
W9FFR
J A M E S B . H O L S T O N J R .
2808 Sheridan R D ., E V A N S T O N, 111.
Spring 1951 p.240, Fall 1952 p.267, Fall 1955 p.345
1949 → 1950 · 2 editions
W9FFR
James B. Holston Jr.
2808 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, HI
Summer 1949 p.199, Summer 1950 p.205
1946 · 1 edition
W9FFR
Wm.s.johnson
1541 E, 50 St .. Kansa• City.mo.
Summer 1946 p.186
1941 · 1 edition
W9FFR
Wm.s.johnson
1541 E, 50 St., Kansas City.mo.
Winter 1941 p.183
1939 → 1941 · 3 editions
W9FFR
Wm.s.johnson
1541 E.50 St .. Kansas City.mo. W 9fnd-Thurman Ridgway, 516 W.sixth St .• Peru, Lml.
Spring 1939 p.155, Spring 1940 p.177, Winter 1941 p.193
1938 · 1 edition
W9FFR
Wm.s.johnson
1541 E.50 St., Kansas City.mo.
Spring 1938 p.152
1937 → 1938 · 2 editions
W9FFR
Wwm.s.johnson
1541 E.50 St., Kansas City, Mo. Wofmq——binar Is, S. Minn Olgeirson, Rfd 8, Edinburg, ND
Fall 1937 p.158, Winter 1938 p.162
1936 · 1 edition
W9FFR
Wm. S. Johnson
1541 E, 50 St., KS
Spring 1936 p.284
1934 → 1935 · 2 editions
W9FFR
Wm. S. Johnson
1414 E, 30th St., KS
Fall 1934 p.165, Spring 1935 p.186

Others Requesting W9FFR

1 application listed W9FFR as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	W9FFR	Result
Mar 14, 2011	Apr 1, 2011	KF5JOL · James B Holston Jr · Bernalillo, NM	1	Granted	Granted this call

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9FFR in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9FFR beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.