🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 4, 2026) · next update today 8:30 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)
WB9VWT HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 25, 2024.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 25, 2024
Previous holder: JOHN E SHIELDS
Held WB9VWT Nov 24, 1992 → Nov 24, 2022
· first licensed Nov 24, 1992 as WB9VWT
· 1 license · FRN 0004837613 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1977 as WB9VWT, before the FCC's online records
WB9VWTExpiredGeneralNov 24, 1992 → Nov 24, 2022 (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 Oct 25, 2002 → Apr 17, 2003 · 2 discs WB9VWT
· General · issued Aug 27, 2002, expires Nov 24, 2012
JOHN E SHIELDS
720 N JAMES ST, SPARTA, IL 62286
Seen Apr 13, 2001 → Apr 27, 2002 · 3 discs WB9VWT
· General · issued Dec 27, 2000, expires Nov 24, 2002
JOHN E. SHIELDS
720 N JAMES ST, SPARTA, IL 62286
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Oct 31, 2000 · 14 discs WB9VWT
· General · issued Nov 24, 1992, expires Nov 24, 2002
JOHN E. SHIELDS
BOX 356, PERCY, IL 62272
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 WB9VWT
JOHN E SHIELDS
720 N JAMES ST, SPARTA, IL 62286
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.
1997 · 1 edition WB9VWT · class G
John E 356, Porq, IL 62272 1997 p.1964
1995 · 1 edition WB9VWT · class G
John E Shields Box 356, Percy ~, IL 62272 1995 p.1833
1994 · 1 edition WB9VWT · class N
William R Shanks 811 Somerset St, New Lenox, IL 60451 1994 p.1690
1986 → 1992 · 3 editions WB9VWT · class G
John E Shields Box 356, Percy, IL 62272 Winter 1986 p.1213, Winter 1987 p.1231, 1992 p.1466
1977 → 1982 · 4 editions WB9VWT · class N
John E Shields 912 Sunset Dr, Pinckneyville 62274 Il Winter 1977 p.678, Winter 1979 p.507, Winter 1980 p.1075, Winter 1982 p.1128
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9VWT in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9VWT beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.