N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 5, 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

W9VSS HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Feb 15, 2009.

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 Feb 15, 2009

Previous holder: RICHARD D KARR

Held W9VSS Feb 14, 1997 → Feb 14, 2007 · first licensed Feb 14, 1997 as W9VSS · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

W9VSS Expired General Feb 14, 1997 → Feb 14, 2007 (expired)

Licensee
RICHARD D KARR

Address
1794 S 250 W RD
SHELBYVILLE, IN 46176
39.5265, -85.7734 (ZIP center) · Grid EM79cm · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Feb 14, 1997

Effective
Feb 14, 1997

Last action
Feb 18, 2009
FCC actions (1)
- Feb 18, 2009 — 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 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as W9VSS
RICHARD D KARR
1794 S 250 W RD, SHELBYVILLE, IN 46176
39.5265, -85.7734 (ZIP center) · Grid EM79cm · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting W9VSS

2 applications listed W9VSS as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	Status
Sep 20, 2021	Oct 8, 2021	KD9DKX · Ernest W Brown · AMERY, WI	3	Granted
Aug 13, 2014	Aug 31, 2014	WM0S · JOHN H WEBER JR · Pewaukee, WI	17	Granted

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for W9VSS in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of W9VSS beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.