🕒 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)
WB9HCQ HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 5, 2019.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 5, 2019
Previous holder: DONALD E BENWAY
Held WB9HCQ Feb 23, 1988 → Nov 4, 2017
· first licensed Feb 23, 1988 as WB9HCQ
· 1 license · FRN 0016866378 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1972 as WB9HCQ, before the FCC's online records
WB9HCQExpiredAdvancedFeb 23, 1988 → Nov 4, 2017 (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 Mar 9, 1998 → Apr 17, 2003 · 11 discs WB9HCQ
· Advanced · issued Nov 4, 1997, expires Nov 4, 2007
DONALD E. BENWAY
4955 BULTMAN RD, MADISON, WI 53704
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 4, 1997 · 8 discs WB9HCQ
· Advanced · issued Feb 23, 1988, expires Feb 23, 1998
DONALD E BENWAY
4955 BULTMAN RD, MADISON, WI 53704
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 · 52 snapshots · as WB9HCQ
DONALD E BENWAY
4955 BULTMAN RD, MADISON, WI 53704
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.
1980 → 1991 · 4 editions WB9HCQ · class A
Donald E Benway 4955 Bultman Rd, Madison, WI 53704 Winter 1980 p.1034, Winter 1983 p.1114, Winter 1986 p.1156, Winter 1991 p.1352
1979 · 1 edition WB9HCQ · class A
Donald E Benway 2634 Irfield Pi, Maoson, WI 53704 Winter 1979 p.462
1975 → 1977 · 3 editions WB9HCQ · class A
Donald E Benway 2634 Fairfield Pl, Madison 53104 Wi Winter 1975 p.581, Winter 1976 p.590, Winter 1977 p.638
1972 → 1974 · 2 editions WB9HCQ · class C
Donald E Benway 2&34 Fairfield Pl, Madison 53704, WI 54304 Winter 1972 p.589, Winter 1974 p.586
None · 1 edition WB9HCQ · class A
Donald E Benway 4955 Bultman Rd, Madison None p.1034
None · 1 edition WB9HCQ · class C
Donald E Benway 2634 Fairfield Pl, Madison None p.555
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9HCQ in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9HCQ beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.