🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CST (FCC files through Nov 4, 2026) · next update today 9:45 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)
WD9FGK HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Apr 6, 2006.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Apr 6, 2006
Previous holder: WILLIAM E ARCHIBALD
Held WD9FGK Mar 9, 1984 → Apr 5, 2004
· first licensed Mar 9, 1984 as WD9FGK
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1979 as WD9FGK, 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 May 3, 1994 → Apr 17, 2003 · 18 discs WD9FGK
· Advanced · issued Apr 5, 1994, expires Apr 5, 2004
WILLIAM E. ARCHIBALD
1507 E WASHINGTON, JOLIET, IL 60432
Seen Sep 9, 1993 · 1 disc WD9FGK
· Advanced · issued Mar 9, 1984, expires Mar 9, 1994
WILLIAM E ARCHIBALD
1507 E WASHINGTON, JOLIET, IL 60432
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 WD9FGK
WILLIAM E ARCHIBALD
1507 E WASHINGTON, JOLIET, IL 60432
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 WD9FGK · class A
William E Archibald 1507 E Washington, Joliet, IL 60432 1997 p.1868
1996 · 1 edition WD9FGK · class A
Wilnam E Archiba~ 1507 E Washington, Joli•!, IL 60432 1996 p.1800
1995 · 1 edition WD9FGK · class A
William E Archibaldb 1507 E Washington Joliet, IL 60431 1995 p.1745
1991 · 1 edition WD9FGK · class A
William E Archibald 15di E Washington, Joliet, IL 60431 Winter 1991 p.1342
1986 → 1989 · 4 editions WD9FGK · class A
William E Archibald 1507 E Washington, Joliet, IL 60431 Winter 1986 p.1147, Winter 1987 p.1165, Winter 1988 p.1197, Winter 1989 p.1216
1983 · 1 edition WD9FGK · class G
Rochelle Township H S Arc , IL 60432 Winter 1983 p.1104
1982 · 1 edition WD9FGK · class G
William E Archibald 1507 E Washington, Joliet, IL 60432 Winter 1982 p.1070
1980 · 1 edition WD9FGK · class G
William E Archibald 1s07 E Washington, Joliet, IL 60432 Winter 1980 p.1025
None → 1979 · 2 editions WD9FGK · class N
William E Archibald 1507 E Washington, Joliet, IL 60432 None p.1024, Winter 1979 p.962
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WD9FGK in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WD9FGK beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.