N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 26, 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)

W9GDS HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 26, 2002.
1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Jun 21, 2011 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got W9GED instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Nov 26, 2002

Previous holder: ROBERT L WALGREEN

Held W9GDS Feb 5, 1985 → Nov 25, 2000 · first licensed Feb 5, 1985 as W9GDS · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1947 as W9GDS, 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.
W9GDS 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 W9GDS

1 application listed W9GDS as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #W9GDSResult
Jun 21, 2011 Jul 9, 2011 KC9TZY · Gedi Jomantas · Island Lake, IL 2Not granted They got W9GED (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9GDS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9GDS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.