🕒 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)
WA9VNW HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Feb 10, 2010.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Feb 10, 2010
Previous holder: ROBERT K SECHMAN
Held WA9VNW Feb 16, 1988 → Feb 9, 2008
· first licensed Feb 16, 1988 as WA9VNW
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1969 as WA9VNW, before the FCC's online records
WA9VNWExpiredAdvancedFeb 16, 1988 → Feb 9, 2008 (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 Nov 11, 1998 → Apr 17, 2003 · 10 discs WA9VNW
· Advanced · issued Feb 9, 1998, expires Feb 9, 2008
ROBERT K. SECHMAN
431 LINCOLN AVE, DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515-3047
Seen Mar 9, 1998 · 1 disc WA9VNW
· Advanced · issued Feb 9, 1998, expires Feb 9, 2008
ROBERT K SECHMAN
431 6INCOLN AVE, DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515-3047
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs WA9VNW
· Advanced · issued Feb 16, 1988, expires Feb 16, 1998
ROBERT K SECHMAN
431 LINCOLN ST, DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515
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 WA9VNW
ROBERT K SECHMAN
431 LINCOLN AVE, DOWNERS GROVE, IL 60515-3047
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.
1972 → 1997 · 10 editions WA9VNW · class A
Robert K Sechman 431 Lincoln St, Downers Grove, IL 60515 Winter 1972 p.622, Winter 1976 p.626, Winter 1977 p.677, Winter 1979 p.1013, Winter 1983 p.1164, Winter 1985 p.1214, Winter 1986 p.1211, Winter 1987 p.1230, 1994 p.1689, 1997 p.1963
1971 · 1 edition WA9VNW · class C
Le Roy R Waterman 1010 E Iron, Salina 67401 Ks Fall 1971 p.51
1969 → 1971 · 3 editions WA9VNW · class G
Robert K Sechman 4 4 0 1 Cumnor Rd Summer 1969 p.595, Fall 1969 p.596, Winter 1971 p.616
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA9VNW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA9VNW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.