🕒 FCC license data updated yesterday 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 3, 2026) · next update today 7:15 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)
WB9QWB HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 9, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jun 9, 2000
Previous holder: CHESTER L WOLF
Held WB9QWB Jun 1, 1984 → Jun 8, 1998
· first licensed Jun 1, 1984 as WB9QWB
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as WB9QWB, before the FCC's online records
WB9QWBCanceledGeneralJun 1, 1984 → Jun 8, 1998 (canceled)
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, 1994 → Mar 9, 1998 · 7 discs WB9QWB
· General · issued May 31, 1994, expires May 31, 2004
CHESTER L WOLF
12670 N STATE RD 37, ELWOOD, IN 46036
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WB9QWB
· General · issued Jun 1, 1984, expires Jun 1, 1994
CHESTER L WOLF
RR 2, ELWOOD, IN 46036
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 WB9QWB
CHESTER L WOLF
12670 N STATE RD 37, ELWOOD, IN 46036
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.
1979 → 1983 · 2 editions WB9QWB · class G
Chester L Wolf Rfd 2, Elwood, IN 46036 Winter 1979 p.1000, Winter 1983 p.1152
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9QWB in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9QWB beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.