🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 14, 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)
WB4OKK HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 21, 2007.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jun 21, 2007
Previous holder: SAM B HERMAN
Held WB4OKK Aug 13, 1985 → Jun 20, 2005
· first licensed Aug 13, 1985 as WB4OKK
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1977 as WB4OKK, before the FCC's online records
WB4OKKExpiredAmateur ExtraAug 13, 1985 → Jun 20, 2005 (expired)
Licensee
SAM B HERMAN
Address
PO Box 967 HICKORY, NC 28603
Last granted
Jun 20, 1995
Effective
Jun 20, 1995
Last action
Jun 21, 2007
FCC actions (1)
Jun 21, 2007 — License expired LIEXP
Callbook Records, 1993–2003
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 26, 1995 → Apr 17, 2003 · 15 discs WB4OKK
· Amateur Extra · issued Jun 20, 1995, expires Jun 20, 2005
SAM B. HERMAN
PO BOX 967, HICKORY, NC 28603
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 12, 1995 · 4 discs WB4OKK
· Amateur Extra · issued Aug 13, 1985, expires Aug 13, 1995
SAM B HERMAN
POB 967, HICKORY, NC 28601
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 11, 2026 · 49 snapshots · as WB4OKK
SAM B HERMAN
PO Box 967 HICKORY, NC 28603
WB4OKK in the Printed Callbooks, 1909–1997
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.
1987 → 1997 · 5 editions WB4OKK · class E
Sam B Herman Pob 967, Hickory, NC 18601 Winter 1987 p.537, Winter 1988 p.547, Winter 1991 p.591, 1994 p.694, 1997 p.796
1984 · 1 edition WB4OKK · class A
Sam B Herman Pob %7, Hickory Nc 1bb01 W40l~ G Henry M Jernigan, Bbl7 N Atlatic Ve, Cape Canaveral, FL 31910 Winter 1984 p.534
1983 · 1 edition WB4OKK · class A
Sam B Herman Pob 967, Hickory 28601 W 4 0 L 0 A Randolph E Neal, 2802 Irwin Rd, Huntsville, AL 35801 Winter 1983 p.509
1982 · 1 edition WB4OKK · class A
Sam B Herman Pob 967, Hickory, NC 28601 Winter 1982 p.495
1981 · 1 edition WB4OKK · class A
Sam B Herman Box 967, Hickory . Ka4oll N James W Hellums, .3189 Douglass Ave, Memphis, TN 38111 Winter 1981 p.485
1977 → 1981 · 4 editions WB4OKK · class A
Sam B Herman Box 967, Hickory 28601 Nc Winter 1977 p.305, Winter 1979 p.454, Winter 1980 p.484, 1981 p.417
1971 · 1 edition WB4OKK · class C
Robert E Pauley Route L, Newell Winter 1971 p.236
1969 · 1 edition WB4OKK · class C
Robert E . P A U L E Y Route 1, Newell Summer 1969 p.239
None · 1 edition WB4OKK · class A
Sam B Herman Pob 967, Hickory, NC 28601 None p.435
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB4OKK in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB4OKK beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.