N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 5, 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

WB8WES HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Aug 31, 2000.

2x3 call: any licensee can request it. No pending applications list it.
Last requested Dec 22, 2003 as choice 3: not granted, that applicant got K8WES instead.

📬 QSL: no LoTW uploads on record · not eQSL AG · QRZ · HamQTH

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Aug 31, 2000

Previous holder: HERMAN H HOSTETLER

Held WB8WES Aug 30, 1988 → Aug 30, 1998 · first licensed Aug 30, 1988 as WB8WES · 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)

WB8WES Expired General Aug 30, 1988 → Aug 30, 1998 (expired)

Licensee
HERMAN H HOSTETLER

Address
2497 ROAD 55
BELLEFONTAINE, OH 43311
40.3644, -83.7584 (ZIP center) · Grid EN80ci · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Last granted
Aug 30, 1988

Effective
Aug 30, 1988

Last action
Sep 1, 2000
FCC actions (1)
- Sep 1, 2000 — License expired LIEXP

Address history

From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Seen Nov 7, 2004 → Oct 4, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as WB8WES
HERMAN H HOSTETLER
2497 ROAD 55, BELLEFONTAINE, OH 43311
40.3644, -83.7584 (ZIP center) · Grid EN80ci · CQ 4 · ITU 8 · map ↗

Others requesting WB8WES

1 application listed WB8WES as a choice, newest first.

Filed	Award	Applicant	Choice #	WB8WES	Result
Dec 22, 2003	Jan 9, 2004	KC8YPI · Wesley T Bourne · Hilliard, OH	3	Not granted	They got K8WES (choice 1)

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB8WES in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB8WES beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.