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)

W9LQZ HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Dec 16, 2007.

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 Dec 16, 2007

Previous holder: MERLE D MECORD

Held W9LQZ Dec 31, 1985 → Dec 15, 2005 · first licensed Dec 31, 1985 as W9LQZ · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1971 as W9LQZ, before the FCC's online records

W9LQZ Expired General Dec 31, 1985 → Dec 15, 2005 (expired)

Licensee
MERLE D MECORD

Address
1613 W CHERRY
MARION, IL 62959
37.7112, -88.9146 (ZIP center) · Grid EM57nr · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Dec 15, 1995

Effective
Dec 15, 1995

Last action
Dec 18, 2007
FCC actions (1)
- Dec 18, 2007 — 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 Apr 21, 1996 → Apr 17, 2003 · 14 discs
W9LQZ · General · issued Dec 15, 1995, expires Dec 15, 2005
MERLE D. MECORD
1613 W CHERRY, MARION, IL 62959
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 26, 1995 · 5 discs
W9LQZ · General · issued Dec 31, 1985, expires Dec 31, 1995
MERLE D MECORD
1613 W CHERRY, MARION, IL 62959

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 W9LQZ
MERLE D MECORD
1613 W CHERRY, MARION, IL 62959
37.7112, -88.9146 (ZIP center) · Grid EM57nr · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

W9LQZ 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.

1982 → 1991 · 4 editions
W9LQZ · class G
Merle D Mecord
1613 W Cherry, Marion, IL 62959
Winter 1982 p.1102, Winter 1983 p.1135, Winter 1989 p.1243, Winter 1991 p.1373
1979 · 1 edition
W9LQZ
C Me~e D Meoor
1613 W Cherry, Marion L 62959
Winter 1979 p.478
1971 → 1975 · 4 editions
W9LQZ · class C
Merle D Mecord
_.1613 W Cherry, Marion &2959
Fall 1971 p.598, Winter 1972 p.605, Winter 1973 p.602, Winter 1975 p.593
1971 · 1 edition
W9LQZ · class C
Merle 0 Meconi
1&13 W Cherry, Marian
Winter 1971 p.598
1960 · 1 edition
W9LQZ
B. Morris Hornaday
9622 S, Leavitt1chicago 43 Ill
Winter 1960 p.517
1952 → 1958 · 8 editions
W9LQZ
B. M Orris Hornaday
9622 So. Leavitt, Chicago 43, 111.
Fall 1952 p.274, Fall 1953 p.283, Spring 1954 p.293, Fall 1954 p.298, Fall 1955 p.353, Spring 1956 p.349, Fall 1957 p.422, Summer 1958 p.440
1946 · 1 edition
W9LQZ
Noel W. Hancock
1910 Tenth Av .. Marlon.
Summer 1946 p.198

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9LQZ in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9LQZ beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.