N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 28, 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)

W9SMQ HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 19, 2018.

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 Jun 19, 2018

Previous holder: LEWIS W BROWN

Held W9SMQ Jun 18, 1996 → Jun 18, 2016 · first licensed Dec 29, 1992 as N9OOT · 1 license · FRN 0009522160
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1935 as W9SMQ, before the FCC's online records

W9SMQ Expired Amateur Extra · vanity Jun 18, 1996 → Jun 18, 2016 (expired)

Licensee
LEWIS W BROWN

Address
417 COLUMBIA DRIVE
COLUMBIA CITY, IN 46725
41.1534, -85.4741 (ZIP center) · Grid EN71gd · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0009522160

Previous call
N9OOT (Advanced)

Last granted
Mar 29, 2006

Effective
Mar 29, 2006

Last action
Jun 19, 2018
FCC actions (4)
- Jun 19, 2018 — License expired LIEXP
- Mar 29, 2006 — License renewed LIREN
- Aug 29, 2003 — FCC action LITIN
- Aug 29, 2003 — Administrative update LIAUA

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
W9SMQ · Amateur Extra · issued Jun 18, 1996, expires Jun 18, 2006 · previously N9OOT (Advanced)
LEWIS W. BROWN
357 N CHAUNCEY ST, COLUMBIA CITY, IN 46725
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 21, 1996 · 6 discs
N9OOT · Amateur Extra · issued Dec 29, 1992, expires Dec 29, 2002 · previously KB9HLQ (Advanced)
LEWIS W BROWN
357 N CHAUNCEY ST, COLUMBIA CITY, IN 46725

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 W9SMQ
LEWIS W BROWN
417 COLUMBIA DRIVE, COLUMBIA CITY, IN 46725
41.1534, -85.4741 (ZIP center) · Grid EN71gd · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

W9SMQ 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.

1973 → 1976 · 3 editions
W9SMQ · class A
Lewis W Brown
R F D 4, Columbia City 46725 In
Winter 1973 p.616, Winter 1975 p.611, Winter 1976 p.621
1971 · 1 edition
W9SMQ · class A
Lewis W Brown
Rfo 4, Columbia City 4&725 In
Fall 1971 p.610
1966 → 1971 · 4 editions
W9SMQ · class A
Lewis W. Brown
Rfd 4, . Columbia City Ind
Spring 1966 p.547, Fall 1967 p.593, Summer 1969 p.589, Winter 1971 p.610
1964 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
L E W I S W. B R O W N . R F D 4. C O L U M B I A C I T Y

Fall 1964 p.531
1962 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
Lewis W. Brown
Rfd 4, Columbia City Ind
Fall 1962 p.541
1957 → 1958 · 2 editions
W9SMQ
L E W I S W. Brown
825 Walnut Street, F O R T Wayne, IN
Fall 1957 p.429, Summer 1958 p.448
1956 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
Lewis W. Brown
East Morton Street, Ligonier, IN
Spring 1956 p.358
1955 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
L E W I S W . B R O W N
E A S T M O R T O N Street, L I G O N I E R, IN
Fall 1955 p.362
1952 → 1954 · 3 editions
W9SMQ
Lewis W. Brown
East Morton Street, L Igonier, IN
Fall 1952 p.282, Fall 1953 p.290, Fall 1954 p.305
1951 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
L E W I S W. B R O W N
E A S T M O R T O N S T R E E T, L I G O N I E R, IN
Spring 1951 p.252
1950 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
Lewis W. Brown
East Morton Street, Ligonier, IN
Summer 1950 p.216
1948 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
Lewis W. Brown
Rfd 4, Columbia City, IN
Fall 1948 p.216
1946 · 1 edition
W9SMQ
L. W. Brown
Rt, 4, Columbia City, IN
Summer 1946 p.209
1935 → 1940 · 2 editions
W9SMQ
Lewls W. Brown
Rfd 6, Columbia City.ind. Tain, MI
Spring 1935 p.215, Spring 1940 p.197

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9SMQ in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9SMQ beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.