🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 8, 2026) · next update today 8:30 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)
WB8RBR HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 6, 2026.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Mar 6, 2026
Previous holder: BARRY M BLOOM
Held WB8RBR Oct 22, 1985 → Mar 5, 2024
· first licensed Oct 22, 1985 as WB8RBR
· 1 license · FRN 0009530114 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as WB8RBR, before the FCC's online records
WB8RBRExpiredGeneralOct 22, 1985 → Mar 5, 2024 (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 3, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 18 discs WB8RBR
· General · issued Nov 2, 1993, expires Nov 2, 2003
BARRY M. BLOOM
1026 W NORTON APT 620, SPRINGFIELD, MO 65803
Seen Sep 9, 1993 · 1 disc WB8RBR
· General · issued Oct 22, 1985, expires Oct 22, 1995
BARRY M BLOOM
14021 W 10 MI, OAK PARK, MI 48237
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen May 27, 2010 → Oct 4, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as WB8RBR
BARRY M BLOOM
42552 beverly way, clinton twp., MI 48038
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.
1994 · 1 edition WB8RBR · class G
Barry M Bloom 14021 West 10 Mi, Oak Park, MI 48237 1994 p.1527
1980 → 1983 · 3 editions WB8RBR · class G
Barry M Bloom 12721 Rosemary, Oak Pk, MI 48237 Winter 1980 p.966, 1981 p.904, Winter 1983 p.1049
1979 · 1 edition WB8RBR · class G
Barry M Bloom 12721 Roseinary, Oak Pi<, MI 48237 Winter 1979 p.400
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB8RBR in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB8RBR beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.