🕒 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)
WB9YQM HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Jul 13, 2000.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Jul 13, 2000
Previous holder: KENNETH E MURPHY
Held WB9YQM Jul 12, 1988 → Jul 12, 1998
· first licensed Jul 12, 1988 as WB9YQM
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as WB9YQM, 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 Oct 31, 1994 → May 2, 2000 · 11 discs WB9YQM
· Technician Plus · issued Jul 12, 1988, expires Jul 12, 1998
KENNETH E. MURPHY
911 8TH AVE, STERLING, IL 61081
Seen Sep 9, 1993 → May 3, 1994 · 2 discs WB9YQM
· Technician · issued Jul 12, 1988, expires Jul 12, 1998
KENNETH E MURPHY
911 8TH AVE, STERLING, IL 61081
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 WB9YQM
KENNETH E MURPHY
911 8TH AVE, STERLING, IL 61081
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.
1990 → 1994 · 3 editions WB9YQM · class T
Kenneth E Murphy 911 8th Avenue, Sterling, IL 61081 Winter 1990 p.1305, Winter 1991 p.1414, 1994 p.1697
1981 → 1983 · 2 editions WB9YQM · class T
Kenneth E Murphy 911 8th Av, Sterling . Il Winter 1981 p.1093, Winter 1983 p.1170
1980 · 1 edition WB9YQM · class T
Kenneth E Murphy 911 Bth Av, Sterling, IL 61051 Winter 1980 p.1082
1979 · 1 edition WB9YQM
Kenneth E Murphy 911 8th Av, Sterling, IL 53142 Winter 1979 p.1021
None · 1 edition WB9YQM · class T
File None p.1090
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WB9YQM in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WB9YQM beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.