🕒 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)
WD9JKQ HAM
✅ Available for a vanity request — free since Mar 24, 2005.
2x3 call: any licensee can request it.
No pending applications list it.
Not currently held
· 1 holder on record
· available since Mar 24, 2005
Previous holder: HERMAN R ZEPS
Held WD9JKQ Mar 23, 1993 → Mar 23, 2003
· first licensed Mar 23, 1993 as WD9JKQ
· 1 license · no FRN on file (pre-2001 records)
📖 In the printed callbooks since 1980 as WD9JKQ, before the FCC's online records
WD9JKQExpiredAdvancedMar 23, 1993 → Mar 23, 2003 (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 Sep 9, 1993 → Apr 17, 2003 · 19 discs WD9JKQ
· Advanced · issued Mar 23, 1993, expires Mar 23, 2003
HERMAN R. ZEPS
319 S WILLIAMS ST, BLUFFTON, IN 46714
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 WD9JKQ
HERMAN R ZEPS
319 S WILLIAMS ST, BLUFFTON, IN 46714
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 · 1 edition WD9JKQ · class T
Herman R Zeps 319 S Williams St, Bluffton, IN 46714 Winter 1990 p.1258
1980 → 1983 · 4 editions WD9JKQ · class T
Herman R Zeps Box 321, Bluffton, IN 46714 Winter 1980 p.1043, 1981 p.982, Winter 1982 p.1092, Winter 1983 p.1125
1979 · 1 edition WD9JKQ · class T
Herman R Zaps Box 32t, ~uffton, IN 46714 Winter 1979 p.472
None · 1 edition WD9JKQ · class T
Herman R Zeps Box 321, Bluffton None p.1045
📡 On the Air: APRS, Digital & WSPR Spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WD9JKQ in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WD9JKQ beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.