🕒 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)
WA9WQG HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jan 22, 2017.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jan 22, 2017
Previous holder: EARL D SMITH
Held WA9WQG Feb 8, 1985 → Jan 21, 2015
· first licensed Feb 8, 1985 as WA9WQG
· 1 license · FRN 0011854122 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1970 as WA9WQG, before the FCC's online records
WA9WQGExpiredTechnicianFeb 8, 1985 → Jan 21, 2015 (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 May 12, 1995 → Apr 17, 2003 · 16 discs WA9WQG
· Technician Plus · issued Jan 21, 1995, expires Jan 21, 2005
EARL D. SMITH
2705 MIAMI, SOUTH BEND, IN 46614
Seen Oct 31, 1994 · 1 disc WA9WQG
· Technician Plus · issued Feb 8, 1985, expires Feb 8, 1995
EARL D SMITH
2705 MIAMI, SOUTH BEND, IN 46614
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WA9WQG
· Technician · issued Feb 8, 1985, expires Feb 8, 1995
EARL D SMITH
2705 MIAMI, SOUTH BEND, IN 46614
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 WA9WQG
EARL D SMITH
2705 MIAMI, SOUTH BEND, IN 46614
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.
1984 · 1 edition WA9WQG · class T
Earl D Smith 251b Elm St, River Grove, IL 60171 Winter 1984 p.1214
1983 · 1 edition WA9WQG · class T
Earl D Smith 2518 Elm St, River Grove, IL 60171 Winter 1983 p.1167
1980 · 1 edition WA9WQG · class T
Earl D Smith 2slb Elm, River Grove, IL 60171 Winter 1980 p.1078
1979 · 1 edition WA9WQG · class T
Earl 0 51tith 2518 Elm, R ~er Grove, IL 60171 Winter 1979 p.509
1976 → 1977 · 2 editions WA9WQG · class T
Earl D Smith 2518 Elm, River Grove 60171 Il Winter 1976 p.628, Winter 1977 p.679
None → 1972 · 5 editions WA9WQG · class T
Earl D Smith 2705 Miami St, South Bend None p.591, Spring 1970 p.610, Winter 1971 p.618, Fall 1971 p.618, Winter 1972 p.624
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WA9WQG in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WA9WQG beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.