🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 20, 2026) · next update tomorrow 6:00 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)
WA9GBO HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 16, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Last requested Nov 15, 2005 as choice 4:
not granted, that applicant got W9GBO instead.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Mar 16, 2000
Previous holder: ROBERT C HOFFMAN
Held WA9GBO Mar 15, 1988 → Mar 15, 1998
· first licensed Mar 15, 1988 as WA9GBO
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1965 as WA9GBO, before the FCC's online records
WA9GBOExpiredAdvancedMar 15, 1988 → Mar 15, 1998 (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 Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 8, 1999 · 12 discs WA9GBO
· Advanced · issued Mar 15, 1988, expires Mar 15, 1998
ROBERT C. HOFFMAN
RR 4 BOX 91, LOOGOOTEE, IN 47553
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 18, 2026 · 50 snapshots · as WA9GBO
ROBERT C HOFFMAN
RR 4 BOX 91, LOOGOOTEE, IN 47553
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.
1990 → 1995 · 3 editions WA9GBO · class A
Robert C Hoffman Rr 4 Box 91, Loogootee, IN 47553 Winter 1990 p.1241, Winter 1991 p.1347, 1995 p.1750
1987 · 1 edition WA9GBO · class A
Robtrt C Hof Man Pdb 91, L~ootet, IN 47553 Winter 1987 p.1170
1983 · 1 edition WA9GBO · class A
Robert C Hoffman Rr 4-Box 198-A, Loogootee, IN 46619 Winter 1983 p.1108
1974 → 1982 · 7 editions WA9GBO · class A
Robert C. Hoffman Box 296, Loogootee, IN 47553 Winter 1974 p.583, Winter 1975 p.578, Winter 1976 p.588, Winter 1979 p.965, Winter 1980 p.1029, 1981 p.964, Winter 1982 p.1075
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA9GBO in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA9GBO beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.