🕒 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)
WB9GZW HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 14, 2023.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 14, 2023
Previous holder: MICHAEL B BUSBOOM
Held WB9GZW Nov 13, 1990 → Nov 13, 2021
· first licensed Nov 13, 1990 as WB9GZW
· 1 license · FRN 0007822356 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1973 as WB9GZW, before the FCC's online records
WB9GZWExpiredGeneralNov 13, 1990 → Nov 13, 2021 (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 Oct 25, 2002 → Apr 17, 2003 · 2 discs WB9GZW
· General · issued Oct 18, 2002, expires Nov 13, 2011
MICHAEL B BUSBOOM
PO BOX 358, GIFFORD, IL 61847
Seen Mar 9, 1998 → Apr 27, 2002 · 9 discs WB9GZW
· General · issued Nov 13, 1990, expires Nov 13, 2000
MICHAEL B. BUSBOOM
PO BOX 358, GIFFORD, IL 61847
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs WB9GZW
· General · issued Nov 13, 1990, expires Nov 13, 2000
MICHAEL B BUSBOOM
POB 358, GIFFORD, IL 61847
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen May 28, 2012 → Nov 1, 2026 · 48 snapshots · as WB9GZW
MICHAEL B BUSBOOM
2316 COUNTY RD 2800 N, GIFFORD, IL 61847
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.
1997 · 1 edition WB9GZW · class G
Michael B Busboom Pob 35b, Gifford, IL 61847 1997 p.1879
1990 · 1 edition WB9GZW · class G
Michael B Busboom Pob 358, Gifford, IL 61841 Winter 1990 p.1245
1987 · 1 edition WB9GZW · class G
Michael B Busboom Pob 35b, Gifford, IL 61847 Winter 1987 p.1173
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9GZW in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9GZW beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.