🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 3, 2026) · next update tomorrow 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)
WB9VLY HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 6, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 6, 2000
Previous holder: FLETCHER W CULVER
Held WB9VLY Jul 5, 1988 → Jul 5, 1998
· first licensed Jul 5, 1988 as WB9VLY
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1977 as WB9VLY, 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 → May 2, 2000 · 13 discs WB9VLY
· Advanced · issued Jul 5, 1988, expires Jul 5, 1998
FLETCHER W. CULVER
508 E LA RUE, STREATOR, IL 61364
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 WB9VLY
FLETCHER W CULVER
508 E LA RUE, STREATOR, IL 61364
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.
1994 · 1 edition WB9VLY · class A
Fletcher W Culver 508 E La Rue, Streator, IL 61364 1994 p.1689
1992 · 1 edition WB9VLY · class A
Fletcher W Culver 50b E La Rue, Streator, IL 61364 1992 p.1465
1991 · 1 edition WB9VLY · class A
Fletcher W Culver 508 E La Rue, Streator, IL 61364 Winter 1991 p.1405
1986 · 1 edition WB9VLY
A F•tcher Wculver Sob E La Rue, Streator Il Bl3b4 Anderson, IN 46011 Winter 1986 p.1211
1977 → 1985 · 4 editions WB9VLY · class A
Fletcher W Culver 508 E La Rue, Streator &13&4 Il Winter 1977 p.677, Winter 1979 p.1013, Winter 1983 p.1164, Winter 1985 p.1214
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9VLY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9VLY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.