N9TPB FCC License Search

🕒 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)

WB9BRU HAM

✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 11, 2006.

2x3 call: any licensee can request it. No pending applications list it.

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

Not currently held · 1 holder on record · available since Mar 11, 2006

Previous holder: Douglas W Smith

Held WB9BRU Sep 21, 1993 → Mar 10, 2004 · first licensed Sep 21, 1993 as WB9BRU · 2 licenses · FRN 0009523283
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1971 as WB9BRU, before the FCC's online records

AB3BR Expired Amateur Extra Mar 10, 2004 → Sep 21, 2023 (expired)

Licensee
Douglas W Smith

Address
418 Green St
Greensburg, PA 15601
40.3133, -79.5364 (ZIP center) · Grid FN00fh · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0009523283

Previous call
WB9BRU (General)

Last granted
Jun 25, 2013

Effective
Jun 25, 2013

Last action
Sep 23, 2025
FCC actions (4)
- Sep 23, 2025 — License expired LIEXP
- Jun 25, 2013 — License renewed LIREN
- Mar 10, 2004 — Systematic call sign granted SYSGRT
- Mar 10, 2004 — License issued LIISS
WB9BRU Canceled Amateur Extra Sep 21, 1993 → Mar 10, 2004 (canceled)

Licensee
Douglas W Smith

Address
418 Green St
Greensburg, PA 15601
40.3133, -79.5364 (ZIP center) · Grid FN00fh · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

FRN
0009523283

Last granted
Aug 29, 2003

Effective
Aug 29, 2003

Last action
Mar 10, 2004
FCC actions (3)
- Mar 10, 2004 — License canceled LICAN
- Aug 29, 2003 — License renewed LIREN
- Aug 29, 2003 — FCC action LITIN

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 Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 17, 2003 · 19 discs
WB9BRU · General · issued Sep 21, 1993, expires Sep 21, 2003
DOUGLAS W. SMITH
RD 5 BOX 104, MOUNT PLEASANT, PA 15666

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 · 104 snapshots · as WB9BRU
Douglas W Smith
418 Green St, Greensburg, PA 15601
40.3133, -79.5364 (ZIP center) · Grid FN00fh · CQ 5 · ITU 8 · map ↗

WB9BRU 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.

1986 · 1 edition
WB9BRU · class G
Doug As Wsmith
2 Flemington Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Winter 1986 p.1127
None → 1984 · 13 editions
WB9BRU · class G
Douglas W Smith
1129 Maple Av, Macomb
None p.541, Winter 1971 p.567, Fall 1971 p.567, Winter 1972 p.573, Winter 1973 p.573, 1974 p.541, Winter 1976 p.577, Winter 1977 p.627, Winter 1979 p.438, Winter 1980 p.1004, Winter 1982 p.1051, Winter 1983 p.1084, Winter 1984 p.1128

📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9BRU in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9BRU beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.