🕒 FCC license data updated today 7:15 am CDT (FCC files through Oct 4, 2026) · next update today 8:30 am CDT
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
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Also a GMRS licensee
Active until Jan 7, 2035 · same FCC Registration Number (FRN) · GMRS covers the licensee's immediate family
🔒 Not available — currently licensed, through Aug 5, 2035. If it isn't renewed, it opens for vanity requests Aug 6, 2037.
📬 QSL:
no LoTW uploads on record
· not eQSL AG
· QRZ · HamQTH
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WE5ABQ has filed vanity applications before — latest filed Jul 18, 2025 ·
what was requested
Currently held by Jesse J Duran
· 2 holders on record
Current holder: Jesse J Duran
Held WE5ABQ Aug 5, 2025 → present
· first licensed Jul 18, 2025 as KR4FKA
· 2 licenses · FRN 0036488443
WE5ABQ
Active
Technician · vanity
Aug 5, 2025 → expires Aug 5, 2035
Licensee Jesse J Duran
Address PO Box 644 Elizabethton, TN 37644
FRN 0036488443
Previous call KR4FKA
Last granted Aug 5, 2025
Effective Aug 5, 2025
Last action Aug 5, 2025
FCC actions (2)
Aug 5, 2025 — Vanity call sign granted VANGRT Aug 5, 2025 — License issued LIISS
KR4FKA
Canceled
Technician
Jul 18, 2025 → Aug 5, 2025 (canceled)
Licensee Jesse J Duran
Address PO Box 644 Elizabethton, TN 37644
FRN 0036488443
Last granted Jul 18, 2025
Effective Jul 18, 2025
Last action Aug 5, 2025
FCC actions (3)
Aug 5, 2025 — License canceled LICAN Jul 18, 2025 — License issued LIISS Jul 18, 2025 — Systematic call sign granted SYSGRT
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Sep 25, 2025 → Oct 4, 2026 · 6 snapshots · as KR4FKA
Jesse J Duran
PO Box 644 Elizabethton, TN 37644
Previous holder: GILBERT DAVIS
Held WE5ABQ Jan 10, 2006 → Jun 18, 2016
· first licensed Aug 26, 2005 as KE5FVW
· 4 licenses · FRN 0007771892
Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.
Seen Mar 28, 2015 → Oct 4, 2026 · 75 snapshots · as WE5ABQ
GILBERT DAVIS
1415 W Monroe St, Decatur, IN 46733
40.8290, -84.9387 (street) · Grid
EN70mt · CQ 4 · ITU 8 ·
map ↗
Seen May 27, 2010 → Oct 4, 2026 · 47 snapshots · as KE5FVW
Gilbert Davis
PO Box 7571 Albuquerque, NM 87194-7571
Seen May 27, 2010 → May 22, 2014 · 11 snapshots · as WE5ABQ
GILBERT DAVIS
6302 Harper Place NE Apt 227, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87109
35.1517, -106.5749 (ZIP center) · Grid
DM65rd · CQ 4 · ITU 7 ·
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Vanity applications filed by WE5ABQ
Calls this licensee has asked the FCC for, newest first, in their order of preference. The FCC processes applications 18 days after filing; "likely award" is our estimate from every pending application in filing order.
Filed · Award Applicant Requested (in order) Status
Filed Jul 18, 2025
Granted Aug 5, 2025
0011654366
KR4FKA · Jesse J Duran
· Technician
PO Box 644 · Elizabethton, TN 37644
Granted
Filed May 31, 2016
Granted Jun 18, 2016
0007285928
WE5ABQ · GILBERT DAVIS
· General
1415 W Monroe St, Decatur, IN 46733
40.8290, -84.9387 (street) · Grid
EN70mt · CQ 4 · ITU 8 ·
map ↗
Granted
Others requesting WE5ABQ
2 applications listed WE5ABQ as a choice, newest first.
📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots
No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WE5ABQ in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WE5ABQ beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.
📍 APRS
WE5ABQ-9 · 18 hr ago
· 1516 ft
36.3442, -82.2457 · `442.200MHz T100 +500_4
WE5ABQ-7 · 31 hr ago
· 1387 ft
36.3440, -82.2457 · APRSCN
Full history on aprs.fi →
Data: FCC Universal Licensing System (amateur & GMRS), NetLogger and more · site status
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