🕒 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)
WB9IED HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 9, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 9, 2000
Previous holder: RICHARD L CONNORS
Held WB9IED Nov 8, 1988 → Nov 8, 1998
· first licensed Nov 8, 1988 as WB9IED
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1973 as WB9IED, before the FCC's online records
WB9IEDExpiredAdvancedNov 8, 1988 → Nov 8, 1998 (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 Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 31, 2000 · 14 discs WB9IED
· Advanced · issued Nov 8, 1988, expires Nov 8, 1998
RICHARD L. CONNORS
3204 ORLEANS AVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61111
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 WB9IED
RICHARD L CONNORS
3204 ORLEANS AVE, ROCKFORD, IL 61111
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.
1991 → 1997 · 3 editions WB9IED · class A
Richard L Connors 3204 Orleans Ave, Rockford, IL 61111 Winter 1991 p.1358, 1996 p.1819, 1997 p.1886
1990 · 1 edition WB9IED · class A
Richard L Connors 3104 Orleans Ave, Rockford, IL 61111 Winter 1990 p.1252
1980 → 1986 · 3 editions WB9IED · class A
Richard L Connors 3204 Orleans Av, Rockford, IL 61111 Winter 1980 p.1038, Winter 1983 p.1119, Winter 1986 p.1161
1973 → 1979 · 5 editions WB9IED · class A
Richard L Connors 3204 Orteans Av, Rockford, IL 61111 Winter 1973 p.590, Winter 1975 p.583, Winter 1976 p.593, Winter 1977 p.641, Winter 1979 p.466
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9IED in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9IED beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.