N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 27, 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)

W9LDB HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 30, 2008.

1x3 call: Technician, General, Advanced and Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Aug 16, 2001 as choice 2: not granted, that applicant got K3GGP instead.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Jul 30, 2008

Previous holder: RICHARD A SMITH

Held W9LDB Jul 29, 1996 → Jul 29, 2006 · first licensed Jul 14, 1992 as AB6MM · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1956 as W9LDB, before the FCC's online records

W9LDB Expired Amateur Extra · vanity Jul 29, 1996 → Jul 29, 2006 (expired)

Licensee
RICHARD A SMITH

Address
1122 VIA LA CUESTA
ESCONDIDO, CA 92029
33.0855, -117.1240 (ZIP center) · Grid DM13kc · CQ 3 · ITU 6 · map ↗

Previous call
AB6MM (Advanced)

Last granted
Jul 29, 1996

Effective
Jul 29, 1996

Last action
Jul 30, 2008
FCC actions (1)
- Jul 30, 2008 — License expired LIEXP

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.

Seen Oct 27, 1996 → Apr 17, 2003 · 13 discs
W9LDB · Amateur Extra · issued Jul 29, 1996, expires Jul 29, 2006 · previously AB6MM (Advanced)
RICHARD A. SMITH
1122 VIA LA CUESTA, ESCONDIDO, CA 92029
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 21, 1996 · 6 discs
AB6MM · Amateur Extra · issued Jul 14, 1992, expires Jul 14, 2002 · previously KF6EA (Advanced)
RICHARD A SMITH
1122 VIA LA CUESTA, ESCONDIDO, CA 92029

Address history

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

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 25, 2026 · 51 snapshots · as W9LDB
RICHARD A SMITH
1122 VIA LA CUESTA, ESCONDIDO, CA 92029
33.0855, -117.1240 (ZIP center) · Grid DM13kc · CQ 3 · ITU 6 · map ↗

W9LDB 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.

1997 · 1 edition
W9LDB · class E
Richard A Smith
112 Via La Cuesta, Escondido, CA 92029
1997 p.1906
1979 → 1980 · 2 editions
W9LDB · class A
Richard A Smith
1031 Kessler Blvd E Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46220
Winter 1979 p.984, Winter 1980 p.1048
1970 → 1976 · 7 editions
W9LDB · class A
Richard A. Smith
803 N. Anderson St, Elwood
Spring 1970 p.588, Winter 1971 p.596, Fall 1971 p.597, Winter 1972 p.604, Winter 1973 p.600, Winter 1975 p.591, Winter 1976 p.600
1969 · 1 edition
W9LDB · class G
Richard A . S M I T H
8 0 3 N . Anderson S T, Elwood I N
Summer 1969 p.575
1965 → 1966 · 2 editions
W9LDB
Richard A. Smith
803 N. Anderson St, Elwood Ind
Summer 1965 p.530, Spring 1966 p.532
1964 · 1 edition
W9LDB · class G
U S T A V L M G U S T A F S O N
Rfd 5. V A L P A R A I S O Ind
Fall 1964 p.512
1963 · 1 edition
W9LDB
Richard A. Smith
803 Ne Anderson St, Elwood Ind
Summer 1963 p.554
1961 → 1962 · 2 editions
W9LDB
Richard A. Smith
803 N. Anderson St, Elwood Ind
Fall 1961 p.546, Fall 1962 p.530
1956 → 1961 · 6 editions
W9LDB
Richard A. Smith
803 North Anderson St., Elwood, IN
Spring 1956 p.349, Fall 1957 p.421, Summer 1958 p.439, Spring 1959 p.449, Winter 1960 p.516, Spring 1961 p.518
1941 → 1947 · 2 editions
W9LDB
Thomas M. Donahue
Rockhurst Rd. & Forest
Winter 1941 p.204, Fall 1947 p.194
1937 · 1 edition
W9LDB
R. Oa Whaley
309 E. Fourth St., Blooming- Wwoeljv—i. I. Page, 1560 Capitol Av. »st.paul, MN
Fall 1937 p.165
1936 · 1 edition
W9LDB
R. M. Whaley
309 E, 4 St., Bloomington.ill.
Spring 1936 p.294
1935 · 1 edition
W9LDB
R. M. Whaley
809 E, 4 St., Bloomlngton, Ill. Wolgu~ud~ E. Benson, Baltic, MI
Spring 1935 p.200
1934 · 1 edition
W9LDB
R. M. Whaley
309 E, 4 St., Bloomin, Ton, IL
Fall 1934 p.179

Others Requesting W9LDB

1 application listed W9LDB as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	W9LDB	Result
Aug 16, 2001	Sep 3, 2001	WA9QJV · DONALD J HARTLING · INDIANAPOLIS, IN	2	Not granted	They got K3GGP (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9LDB in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9LDB beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.