N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 8:30 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 1, 2026) · next update today 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

W9KBW HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since May 3, 2001.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since May 3, 2001

Previous holder: RUSSELL E JOHNSTON

Held W9KBW May 2, 1989 → May 2, 1999 · first licensed May 2, 1989 as W9KBW · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W9KBW Expired General May 2, 1989 → May 2, 1999 (expired)

Licensee
RUSSELL E JOHNSTON

Address
7436 2B SADDLEBACK CT
FORT WAYNE, IN 46904

Last granted
May 2, 1989

Effective
May 2, 1989

Last action
May 3, 2001
FCC actions (1)
- May 3, 2001 — License expired LIEXP

Address history

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

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Sep 27, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as W9KBW
RUSSELL E JOHNSTON
7436 2B SADDLEBACK CT, FORT WAYNE, IN 46904

Others requesting W9KBW

3 applications listed W9KBW as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Mar 6, 2023	Mar 24, 2023	KD6QLK · Samantha A HARPMAN · ontario, CA	11	Granted
May 19, 2014	Jun 6, 2014	KD8YOG · ROBERT C THOMSON · LONDON, OH	2	Granted
Jul 7, 2005	Jul 25, 2005	KC9HEV · JOHN F GRIMES · PEORIA, IL	2	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9KBW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9KBW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.