🕒 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)
WB9NHV HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 22, 2022.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 22, 2022
Previous holder: STEVEN P SHIPTON
Held WB9NHV Aug 9, 1988 → Jul 21, 2020
· first licensed Aug 9, 1988 as WB9NHV
· 1 license · FRN 0003944790 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1977 as WB9NHV, 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 Oct 31, 2000 → Apr 17, 2003 · 6 discs WB9NHV
· Advanced · issued Jul 21, 2000, expires Jul 21, 2010
STEVEN P. SHIPTON
1151 LAKESIDE DRIVE, PALATINE, IL 60067
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 2, 2000 · 13 discs WB9NHV
· Advanced · issued Aug 9, 1988, expires Aug 9, 1998
STEVEN P. SHIPTON
415 SHENSTONE RD, RIVERSIDE, IL 60546
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 WB9NHV
STEVEN P SHIPTON
1151 LAKESIDE DRIVE, PALATINE, IL 60067
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.
1995 → 1996 · 2 editions WB9NHV · class A
Steven P Shipton 1 415 Shenstone Ra Riverside, IL 60546 1995 p.1790, 1996 p.1849
1994 · 1 edition WB9NHV · class A
Steven P Shipton 415 Shenstone Rd, Riverside, IL 60546 1994 p.1650
1988 · 1 edition WB9NHV · class A
Steven P Shipton 2905 S I Ith Avenue, Broadview, IL 60153 Winter 1988 p.1230
1987 · 1 edition WB9NHV · class A
Steven P Shipton 1905 S Eleventh Ave, Broadview, IL 60153 Winter 1987 p.1198
1977 → 1985 · 6 editions WB9NHV · class A
Steven P Shipton 726 N Spring, La Grange Park, IL 60525 Winter 1977 p.654, Winter 1979 p.991, Winter 1980 p.1053, Winter 1983 p.1142, Winter 1984 p.1185, Winter 1985 p.1186
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9NHV in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9NHV beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.