🕒 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)
WA9URD HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 15, 2006.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 15, 2006
Previous holder: DWIGHT E SMITH
Held WA9URD Aug 24, 1984 → Jul 14, 2004
· first licensed Aug 24, 1984 as WA9URD
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1973 as WA9URD, 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 WA9URD
· General · issued Jul 14, 1994, expires Jul 14, 2004
DWIGHT E. SMITH
277 YORKSHIRE AVE SW, FORT MYERS, FL 33908
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WA9URD
· General · issued Aug 24, 1984, expires Aug 24, 1994
DWIGHT E SMITH
1245 PLUM ST, AURORA, IL 60506
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 WA9URD
DWIGHT E SMITH
277 YORKSHIRE AVE SW, FORT MYERS, FL 33908
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.
1996 → 1997 · 2 editions WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 277 Yorkshire A" Sw, Fort ~m, FL 33908 1996 p.1885, 1997 p.1958
1994 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 1245 Plum St, Aurora, IL 60506 1994 p.1686
1984 → 1993 · 3 editions WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 1145 Plum St, Aurora, IL 60506 Winter 1984 p.1208, Winter 1987 p.1226, 1993 p.1587
1983 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 1245 Plum St, Aurora, IL 60506 Winter 1983 p.1162
1982 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 1245 Plum S, Aurora, IL 60506 Winter 1982 p.1125
1980 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 124s Plum St, Aurora, IL 60506 Winter 1980 p.1073
1979 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 1245 Plum, Aurora, IL 60506 Winter 1979 p.1010
1977 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smnh 1145 Plum, Aurora 60506 Il Winter 1977 p.674
1975 → 1976 · 2 editions WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith 1245 Plum, Aurora 60500 Il Winter 1975 p.614, Winter 1976 p.625
1973 · 1 edition WA9URD · class G
Dwight E Smith Box 1364, A U R O R A 60507 I L Winter 1973 p.620
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA9URD in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA9URD beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.