🕒 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)
WB9JFF HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 27, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 27, 2000
Previous holder: JOHN J TEWELL JR
Held WB9JFF Jul 26, 1988 → Jul 26, 1998
· first licensed Jul 26, 1988 as WB9JFF
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1973 as WB9JFF, before the FCC's online records
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 7, 1999 · 11 discs WB9JFF
· Advanced · issued Jul 26, 1988, expires Jul 26, 1998
JOHN J TEWELL JR
2014 CORONET RD, LOVES PARK, 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 WB9JFF
JOHN J TEWELL JR
2014 CORONET RD, LOVES PARK, 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.
1989 → 1992 · 2 editions WB9JFF · class A
John J Tewell Jr 2014 Coronet Rd, Loves Parl<, IL 61111 Winter 1989 p.1236, Winter 1992 p.1420
1986 → 1988 · 2 editions WB9JFF · class G
John J T•well Jr 1318 Burbank Ave, Rockford, IL 61103 Winter 1986 p.1165, Winter 1988 p.1215
1983 → 1985 · 2 editions WB9JFF · class G
John J Tewell Jr 1328 Burbank Ave, Rockford, IL 61103 Winter 1983 p.1124, Winter 1985 p.1170
1980 · 1 edition WB9JFF · class G
John J Tewell Jr 132b Burbank Av, Rockford, IL 61103 Winter 1980 p.1042
1979 · 1 edition WB9JFF · class G
John J Tewell Jr 1328 Burbank Av, Rockford, IL 61103 Winter 1979 p.471
1976 · 1 edition WB9JFF · class C
John J Tewell Jr 2636 Broadway, Quincy 62301 Il Winter 1976 p.595
1975 · 1 edition WB9JFF · class C
John J Tewell Jr 1636 Broadway, Quincy 62301 Il Winter 1975 p.586
1974 · 1 edition WB9JFF · class C
John J Tewell Jr 2&3& Broadway, Quincy &2301 Il Winter 1974 p.592
1973 · 1 edition WB9JFF · class C
John J Tewell Jr 2636 Broadway, Quincy 62301 I L Winter 1973 p.593
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9JFF in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9JFF beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.