N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 3, 2026) · next update today 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)

WA3ILW HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Apr 3, 2021.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it. No pending applications list it.

📬 QSL: LoTW user · last upload Jan 22, 2018 · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Apr 3, 2021

Previous holder: JAMES D MCFADDEN

Held WA3ILW Dec 22, 2005 → Apr 2, 2019 · first licensed Dec 22, 2005 as WA3ILW · 2 licenses · FRN 0003427580
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1971 as WA3ILW, before the FCC's online records

Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Earlier Holders

WA3ILW in the 1993–2003 Callbooks
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.
WA3ILW 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.

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA3ILW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA3ILW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.