🕒 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)
WB9WYY HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jun 13, 2008.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jun 13, 2008
Previous holder: DONALD E BROWN
Held WB9WYY Sep 23, 1986 → Jun 12, 2006
· first licensed Sep 23, 1986 as WB9WYY
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1977 as WB9WYY, before the FCC's online records
WB9WYYExpiredTechnician PlusSep 23, 1986 → Jun 12, 2006 (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 27, 1996 → Apr 17, 2003 · 13 discs WB9WYY
· Technician Plus · issued Jun 12, 1996, expires Jun 12, 2006
DONALD E. BROWN
307 E THRUSH, PEORIA, IL 61603
Seen Oct 31, 1994 → Apr 21, 1996 · 4 discs WB9WYY
· Technician Plus · issued Sep 23, 1986, expires Sep 23, 1996
DONALD E BROWN
307 E THRUSH, PEORIA, IL 61603
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WB9WYY
· Technician · issued Sep 23, 1986, expires Sep 23, 1996
DONALD E BROWN
307 E THRUSH, PEORIA, IL 61603
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 WB9WYY
DONALD E BROWN
307 E THRUSH, PEORIA, IL 61603
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 WB9WYY · class T
Donald E Brown 307 E Thrush, Peoria N, 61603 1995 p.1839
1977 → 1994 · 11 editions WB9WYY · class T
Donald E Brown 307 E Thrush, Peoria Blb03 Il Winter 1977 p.681, Winter 1979 p.510, Winter 1982 p.1131, Winter 1983 p.1168, Winter 1984 p.1215, Winter 1985 p.1218, Winter 1986 p.1215, Winter 1988 p.1266, 1992 p.1470, 1993 p.1595, 1994 p.1694
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9WYY in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9WYY beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.