🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 6:02 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 16, 2026) · next update today 8:30 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)
WA1QBQ HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 17, 2006.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 17, 2006
Previous holder: JOHN F WILLIAMS
Held WA1QBQ Sep 28, 1984 → Jul 16, 2004
· first licensed Sep 28, 1984 as WA1QBQ
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1974 as WA1QBQ, before the FCC's online records
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 31, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 17 discs WA1QBQ
· Advanced · issued Jul 16, 1994, expires Jul 16, 2004
JOHN F. WILLIAMS
256 MARVIN RIDGE RD, NEW CANAAN, CT 06840
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WA1QBQ
· Advanced · issued Sep 28, 1984, expires Sep 28, 1994
JOHN F WILLIAMS
256 MARVIN RIDGE RD, NEW CANAAN, CT 06840
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as WA1QBQ
JOHN F WILLIAMS
256 MARVIN RIDGE RD, NEW CANAAN, CT 06840
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.
1988 → 1991 · 2 editions WA1QBQ · class A
John F Williams 256 Marvin Ridge Rd, New Canaan, CT 06840 Winter 1988 p.173, Winter 1991 p.181
1987 · 1 edition WA1QBQ · class A
John F Williams 15b Marvin Ridge Rd, New Canaan Ct Obb40 Wiqll A Joseph M Chirnitch, 9 Eubar Cir, Billerica, MA 01811 Winter 1987 p.170
1983 · 1 edition WA1QBQ · class A
Robert 8 Peirce 4881 Washington St, West Roxbury, MA 02132 Winter 1983 p.163
1980 → 1981 · 2 editions WA1QBQ · class A
John F Williams '256 Marvin Ridge Rd, New Canaan, CT 06840 Winter 1980 p.150, 1981 p.87
1979 · 1 edition WA1QBQ · class A
John F Wiliams 256 Mar~n Akigo Rd, New Canaan, CT 06840 Winter 1979 p.143
None → 1977 · 5 editions WA1QBQ · class A
John F Williams 256 Marvin Ridge Rd, New Canaan, CT 06840 None p.64, 1974 p.64, Winter 1975 p.85, Winter 1976 p.85, Winter 1977 p.89
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA1QBQ in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA1QBQ beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.