N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 15, 2026) · next update today 9:45 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)

WA1RQF HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jan 13, 2000.

2x3 call: any licensee can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Sep 20, 2001 as choice 15: not granted, that applicant got KA1QXR instead.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Jan 13, 2000

Previous holder: WILLIAM R ARMSTRONG

Held WA1RQF Jan 12, 1988 → Jan 12, 1998 · first licensed Jan 12, 1988 as WA1RQF · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1975 as WA1RQF, before the FCC's online records

WA1RQF Expired General Jan 12, 1988 → Jan 12, 1998 (expired)

Licensee
WILLIAM R ARMSTRONG

Address
386 HOWARD
NORTHBORO, MA 01532
42.3233, -71.6462 (ZIP center) · Grid FN42eh · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Jan 12, 1988

Effective
Jan 12, 1988

Last action
Jan 13, 2000
FCC actions (1)
- Jan 13, 2000 — 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 Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 8, 1999 · 12 discs
WA1RQF · General · issued Jan 12, 1988, expires Jan 12, 1998
WILLIAM R. ARMSTRONG
386 HOWARD, NORTHBORO, MA 01532

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 WA1RQF
WILLIAM R ARMSTRONG
386 HOWARD, NORTHBORO, MA 01532
42.3233, -71.6462 (ZIP center) · Grid FN42eh · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

WA1RQF 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.

1981 → 1983 · 3 editions
WA1RQF · class G
William R Armstrong
386 Howard’ St, Northboro. ~, MA 01532
Winter 1981 p.154, Winter 1982 p.160, Winter 1983 p.165
1979 · 1 edition
WA1RQF · class G
Michael A Lacovazzi
155 Evelyn Rd Bristol, CT 06010
Winter 1979 p.145
None → 1977 · 3 editions
WA1RQF · class T
William R Armstrong
386 Howard St
None p.67, Winter 1975 p.88, Winter 1977 p.91

Others Requesting WA1RQF

1 application listed WA1RQF as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	WA1RQF	Result
Sep 20, 2001	Oct 8, 2001	N1YEN · GEOFFREY A LUNDY · DERRY, NH	15	Not granted	They got KA1QXR (choice 1)

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA1RQF in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA1RQF beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.