🕒 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)
WA9ARX HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 7, 2008.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 7, 2008
Previous holder: JOHN W CARTER
Held WA9ARX Feb 17, 1987 → Nov 6, 2006
· first licensed Feb 17, 1987 as WA9ARX
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1965 as WA9ARX, before the FCC's online records
WA9ARXExpiredAdvancedFeb 17, 1987 → Nov 6, 2006 (expired)
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 Apr 4, 1997 → Apr 17, 2003 · 12 discs WA9ARX
· Advanced · issued Nov 6, 1996, expires Nov 6, 2006
JOHN W. CARTER
700 S PAULINA ST 1027, CHICAGO, IL 60612
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 27, 1996 · 7 discs WA9ARX
· Advanced · issued Feb 17, 1987, expires Feb 17, 1997
JOHN W CARTER
700 S PAULINA ST APT 1027, CHICAGO, IL 60612
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 WA9ARX
JOHN W CARTER
700 S PAULINA ST 1027, CHICAGO, IL 60612
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.
1997 · 1 edition WA9ARX · class A
John W Carter 700 S Paulina St 1027, Chicago, IL 60612 1997 p.1841
1971 → 1996 · 13 editions WA9ARX · class A
John W. Carter 9419 S Emerald Av, Chicago &0&20 Il Fall 1971 p.564, Winter 1975 p.565, Winter 1976 p.575, Winter 1979 p.432, Winter 1980 p.998, Winter 1982 p.1044, Winter 1983 p.1077, Winter 1984 p.1120, Winter 1985 p.1124, Winter 1986 p.1121, 1993 p.1485, 1994 p.1577, 1996 p.1773
1971 · 1 edition WA9ARX · class A
John W Carter, 9419 S.emerald Av Winter 1971 p.564
1965 → 1968 · 3 editions WA9ARX
John W. Carter 9419 S.emeralo Av, Chicago 20 Ill Summer 1965 p.503, Spring 1966 p.505, Spring 1968 p.563
1963 · 1 edition WA9ARX
John W. Carter 1 9419 Se Emerald Av Chicago 20 I Ll Summer 1963 p.524
None · 1 edition WA9ARX · class A
John W Carter 9419 S Emerald Av, Chicago None p.538
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA9ARX in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA9ARX beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.