🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 3, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 am CST
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)
WA0VHI HAM
Amateur Extra classlicensed since 1988 (38 yrs)WA0VHI since 1988 · previously KD9NETQuincy, ILGrid EM49hwLoTW user25 repeaters within 50 mi
🔒 Not available — currently licensed, through Mar 1, 2032. If it isn't renewed, it opens for vanity requests Mar 2, 2034.
📝 WA0VHI has filed vanity applications before — latest filed Feb 9, 2022 · what was requested
Currently held by Alexander G Rankin
· 2 holders on record
Current holder: Alexander G Rankin
Held WA0VHI Mar 29, 1988 → present
· first licensed Mar 29, 1988 as WA0VHI
· 2 licenses · FRN 0028488518 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1973 as WA0VHI, before the FCC's online records
KD9NETCanceledGeneralMay 13, 2019 → Mar 1, 2022 (canceled)
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 Mar 9, 1998 → Apr 7, 1999 · 3 discs WA0VHI
· General · issued Jan 21, 1998, expires Jan 21, 2008
THOMAS C RANKIN JR
1359 BRANDYWINE LN, SAINT PETERS, MO 63376-6511
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs WA0VHI
· General · issued Mar 29, 1988, expires Mar 29, 1998
THOMAS C RANKIN JR
1359 BRANDYWINE LN, SAINT CHARLES, MO 63303
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Apr 16, 2022 → Nov 1, 2026 · 34 snapshots · as KD9NET
Alexander G Rankin
1101 Chestnut St, Quincy, IL 62301
Held WA0VHI Mar 29, 1988 → Jan 7, 2022
· first licensed Mar 29, 1988 as WA0VHI
· 1 license · FRN 0017027954 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1973 as WA0VHI, before the FCC's online records
WA0VHICanceledGeneralMar 29, 1988 → Jan 7, 2022 (canceled)
Licensee
THOMAS C RANKIN
Address
Attn: Thomas C Rankin 1359 BRANDYWINE LN SAINT PETERS, MO 63376-6511
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 Mar 9, 1998 → Apr 7, 1999 · 3 discs WA0VHI
· General · issued Jan 21, 1998, expires Jan 21, 2008
THOMAS C RANKIN JR
1359 BRANDYWINE LN, SAINT PETERS, MO 63376-6511
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs WA0VHI
· General · issued Mar 29, 1988, expires Mar 29, 1998
THOMAS C RANKIN JR
1359 BRANDYWINE LN, SAINT CHARLES, MO 63303
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Nov 1, 2026 · 52 snapshots · as WA0VHI
THOMAS C RANKIN
Attn: Thomas C Rankin 1359 BRANDYWINE LN, SAINT PETERS, MO 63376-6511
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.
1994 · 1 edition WA0VHI · class G
Thomas C Rankin Jr 1359 Brandywine Ln, K D 0 V J A Benjamin D Osecky, 5112 Greenview Ct, Fort Collins, CO 80525 1994 p.121
1983 → 1986 · 4 editions WA0VHI · class G
Thomas C Rankin Jr Rfd 1-Box 45, Elsberry, MO 63343 Winter 1983 p.96, Winter 1984 p.100, Winter 1985 p.100, Winter 1986 p.99
1982 · 1 edition WA0VHI · class G
Thomas C Rankin Jr Rfd 1·8cx 45, Elsberry Mo, 63343 Winter 1982 p.93
1979 → 1980 · 2 editions WA0VHI · class G
Thomas C Rankin Jr Rfd 1-Box 45, Elsberry, MO 63343 Winter 1979 p.81, Winter 1980 p.86
1976 · 1 edition WA0VHI · class C
Thomas C Rankin J R Rfd 1-Box 45, Elsberry 63343 Mo Winter 1976 p.52
1974 · 1 edition WA0VHI
C Ome C Pie= Rfd 1-Box 45 Elsberry 63343 Mo 1974 p.645
1973 · 1 edition WA0VHI · class C
Thomas C Rankin Jr 2232 Wallis Av Winter 1973 p.52
1971 · 1 edition WA0VHI · class G
Margaret L Allen 1462 Grace Av, San Jose Winter 1971 p.443
1969 · 1 edition WA0VHI · class C
Thomas C Rank-In J R 2 2 3 2 W A L L I S A V, O V E R L A N D Summer 1969 p.47
None · 1 edition WA0VHI · class G
Thomas C Rankin Jr Rfd 1-Box 45, Elsberry None p.1188
Vanity Applications Filed by WA0VHI
Calls this licensee has asked the FCC for, newest first, in their order of preference. The FCC processes applications 18 days after filing; "likely award" is our estimate from every pending application in filing order.
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA0VHI in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA0VHI beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.