N9TPB FCC License Search
🕒 FCC license data updated today 9:42 am CDT (FCC files through Sep 30, 2026) · next update tomorrow 9:15 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

WF5C HAM

⏳ Not available yet — opens for vanity requests Apr 27, 2027, two years after the license was canceled (Apr 26, 2025).
2x1 call: only Amateur Extra licensees can request it. No pending applications list it.

Not currently held · 2 holders on record

Previous holder: Terry L Koelling

Held WF5C Jun 15, 2024 → Apr 26, 2025 · first licensed Dec 18, 1990 as KC0BU · 6 licenses · FRN 0029103611

Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Previous holder: JAMES J VAN HORN

Held WF5C Apr 15, 2003 → May 27, 2022 · first licensed Apr 15, 2003 as WF5C · 2 licenses · FRN 0002447159

Address history
From FCC database snapshots (2004 → now). "Seen" dates are the first and last snapshot showing that address.

Others requesting WF5C

5 applications listed WF5C as a choice, newest first.

FiledAwardApplicantChoice #Status
May 29, 2024 Jun 16, 2024 KG5ONA · Floyd M Springer · Southlake, TX 1Dismissed
May 28, 2024 Jun 15, 2024 AD0A · Terry L Koelling · Arvada, CO 1Granted
May 28, 2024 Jun 15, 2024 W1WWA · Kurt E Lautenschlager · New Orleans, LA 1Dismissed
May 28, 2024 Jun 15, 2024 KG5ONA · Floyd M SPRINGER · Southlake, TX 1Dismissed
May 28, 2024 Jun 15, 2024 KG5ONA · Floyd M Springer · SOUTH LAKE, TX 1Dismissed

📡 On the air: APRS, digital & WSPR spots

No APRS positions, PSK Reporter reports or WSPR spots for WF5C in the last 24 hours. They show up here within seconds of WF5C beaconing on APRS, being heard on FT8, FT4 and other digital modes, or sending a WSPR beacon.