🕒 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)
WB9WIT HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since May 1, 2010.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since May 1, 2010
Previous holder: JOY E HORTENSTINE
Held WB9WIT May 10, 1988 → Apr 30, 2008
· first licensed May 10, 1988 as WB9WIT
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1977 as WB9WIT, 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 Nov 11, 1998 → Apr 17, 2003 · 10 discs WB9WIT
· General · issued Apr 30, 1998, expires Apr 30, 2008
JOY E. HORTENSTINE
RR 1 BOX 67, GAYS, IL 61928
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → Mar 9, 1998 · 9 discs WB9WIT
· General · issued May 10, 1988, expires May 10, 1998
JOY E HORTENSTINE
RR 1 BOX 67, GAYS, IL 61928
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 WB9WIT
JOY E HORTENSTINE
RR 1 BOX 67, GAYS, IL 61928
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 · 1 edition WB9WIT · class G
Joy E Hortenstine Rr I Box 67, Gays, IL 61928 1995 p.1836
1990 · 1 edition WB9WIT · class G
Joy E Hortenstine Rr 1 Box 67, Gays, IL 61928 Winter 1990 p.1300
1986 · 1 edition WB9WIT · class G
Joy E Hortenstine Rr I Box B7, Gays Il &1918 Winter 1986 p.1214
1985 · 1 edition WB9WIT · class G
Joy E Hortenstine Rr I Box 67, Gals Il Bl91b Winter 1985 p.1216
1979 → 1983 · 2 editions WB9WIT · class G
Joy E Hortenstine Rfd 1, Gays, IL 61928 Winter 1979 p.1016, Winter 1983 p.1166
1977 · 1 edition WB9WIT · class N
Joy E Hortenstine Rfd !, Gays Bl92s Il Winter 1977 p.679
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9WIT in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9WIT beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.