🕒 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)
WB9WQK HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Nov 5, 2018.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Nov 5, 2018
Previous holder: JOAN C NICHOLAS
Held WB9WQK Feb 3, 1987 → Nov 4, 2016
· first licensed Feb 3, 1987 as WB9WQK
· 1 license · FRN 0007531676 📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as WB9WQK, before the FCC's online records
WB9WQKExpiredTechnicianFeb 3, 1987 → Nov 4, 2016 (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 Apr 4, 1997 → Apr 17, 2003 · 12 discs WB9WQK
· Technician Plus · issued Nov 4, 1996, expires Nov 4, 2006
JOAN C. NICHOLAS
RD 2 BOX 93, TOULON, IL 61483
Seen Oct 31, 1994 → Oct 27, 1996 · 5 discs WB9WQK
· Technician Plus · issued Feb 3, 1987, expires Feb 3, 1997
JOAN C NICHOLAS
RD 2 BOX 93, TOULON, IL 61483
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WB9WQK
· Technician · issued Feb 3, 1987, expires Feb 3, 1997
JOAN C NICHOLAS
RD 2 BOX 93, TOULON, IL 61483
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 WB9WQK
JOAN C NICHOLAS
RD 2 BOX 93, TOULON, IL 61483
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 · 3 editions WB9WQK · class T
Joan C Nicholas Rfd 2-Box 108, Toular, IL 61483 Winter 1979 p.1017, Winter 1982 p.1130, Winter 1983 p.1167
1977 · 1 edition WB9WQK · class T
Joan C Nicho~s Rfd 2-Box 108, Toular 61483 Winter 1977 p.680
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9WQK in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9WQK beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.