CALLSIGN |
NAME OR LOCATION
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A41AA
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Oaboos Bin Asid Al Said - Sultan of Oman
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CN8MH
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King Hassan II - King of Morocco (sk)
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DD6CF
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Reinhard Alfred Furrer - German Space Agency astronaut.
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DG2KM
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Dr Ernst Willi Messerschmid - German Space Agency astronaut.
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EA0JC
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King Carlos of Spain
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F5VBY
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Brother of Ray Dolby - Inventor of the Dolby Sound System
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F5VBX
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Ann Dolby - Wife of F5VBY
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FX0STB
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Jean-Pierre HaignerŽ - French government space agency spationaut. 2 Missions to MIR
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GB1MIR
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Helen Sharman - First British woman into space
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GB2BP
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Bletchley Park - Home of wartime top secret 'Station X' of ENIGMA de-coding fame
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GB2RS
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The news broadcasting service of the Radio Society of Great Britain. Established in 1955
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GB4BLC
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Bedworth Lions Club special event callsign. (Licensee Lion Brian G8GMU)
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GM3ITN
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Les Hamilton - He first alerted England of Argentine invasion of the Falklands 1982
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GX2ASF
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Coventry Amateur Radio Society. (Originally G2ASF) The oldest affiliated club to the RSGB 75 years in 2007
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G1EXG
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Dr. Jonathan Hare - Physicist, astronomer & BBC TV presenter
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G2LO
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B.B.C - Radio Club. (The licensee's address believed to be Warwick Castle ~ Enquiry pending)
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G2MT
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Marconi Radio Society. ~ 2MT was the Marconi callsign at Writtle experimental wireless station
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G2NM
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Gerald Marcuse - Amateur broadcaster of the 1920's, prior to the BBC Overseas Service as 2NM (sk)
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G2QA
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A J.Simkins. M.B.E.
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G2YL
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Nelly Corry - The 2nd UK Lady Radio Amateur in 1932 (sk)
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G2XM
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Sir Richard Davies, KCVO, CBE, C.Eng, FIEE - Was a member of The Household of the Duke of Edinburgh (sk)
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G2BCK
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F C Judd - Author of radio amateur books (sk)
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G2DQU
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Lord Rix of Whitehall, (Formerly Sir Brian Rix Kt CBE DL) - Actor & politician
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G3BBC
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Film Studios Ealing
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G3EUR
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Major John Brown - Designer of the famous WW2 spy B2 suitcase radios & founder of the Duxford Radio Society (sk)
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G3HB
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G.L.Benbow - Author radio amateur books
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G3ITF
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Brian Freeman - Connected with that 'British Institution' Freeman Hardy & Willis
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G3PLX
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Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
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G3PLX
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Peter Martinez - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
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G3SXW
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Roger Western - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations
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G3TPW
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Stephen Webb - Prolific electronics engineer. Designer of the G3TPW Cobwebb antenna
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G3TXF
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Nigel Cawthorne - Member of the CQ Hall of fame for his many years of activating very rare DX locations
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G3TZH
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A Dolby - Brother of Ray Dolby (of Dolby System fame)
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G3UML
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Laurie Margolis - BBC journalist who received the reports from VP8LP of the Falkland Islands invasion in 1982.
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G3YLA
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Jim Bacon - T V weatherman - ex BBC
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G4AEH
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Jim Lee - BBC radio broadcaster & producer (A local radio ham & good friend to Lions Clubs)
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G4MH
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James (Jim) Fish - Designer of the G4MH Mini-Beam Antennas
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G4PZR
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G4RK
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Capt. George Thomas Smith-Clarke - Designed the paediatric iron lung also motor scooter, prolific inventor (sk)
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G5OG
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Lord C. I. Ewing. OBE - Fellow of The Royal Television Society
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G5RV
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Louie Varney Antenna Designer (sk) ~ G5RV is now Mid - Sussex Amateur Radio Society callsign
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G6YL
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Barbara Dunn - The first UK Lady Radio Amateur (sk)
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G7CDK
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Alan Florence - Sound engineer. Worked on the Tony Hancock recordings of the Radio Ham & Blood Donor
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G8PO
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Cmdr. J E Ironmonger O.B.E.
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G8TGS
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Dr. W R Williams - Diplomat
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G0DMU
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Ian Morrison - Senior project manager at Jodrell Bank. Appears in Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy
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G0KRH
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Chris Tarrant - TV quiz show host & TV personality
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G0MSL
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James Bobbett - Past Town Crier - Glastonbury
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G0OAN
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Fergal Sharkey - Lead singer in Irish punk band in 1970's
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G0VIQ
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Eugene Sully - Big brother contestant & radio broadcaster. Member of Mid - Sussex Amateur Radio Society
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G0VQH
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Councilor Jenny Bailey - Mayor of The City of Cambridge 2007 - 2008
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HS1A
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Bhumiphol Adulayadej - King of Thailand
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HS1D
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Maha Chakri Sirindhorn- Princess to the throne of Thailand
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I0FCG
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Francego Cossiga - Former Italian President
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IZ0JPA
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Paolo Angelo Nespoli - Itallian Astronaut of the European Space Agency
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J3BB
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Masaru Ibuka - Co-founder of Sony
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JA3FA
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Tokuzo Inoue - Founder of ICOM
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JI1KIT
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Keizo Obuchi - Japanese Prime Minister
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JK1SIU
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Noria Ohga - Chairman of Sony
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JP1DPJ
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Akio Morita - Founder of Sony
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JY1
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King Hussain of Jordan (sk)
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JY1H
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Queen Noor of Jordan
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JY2HT
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Former Crown Prince Hassan - Brother of the late King Hussein of Jordan
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JY2RZ
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Prince Raad Ibn Zeid- Cousin of King Hussein of Jordan, Prince of Jordan and chairman of the Royal Jordan Radio Amateur Society.
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KB2GSD
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Walter Cronkite - "The worlds most recognised" US television newsreader - Walter has an asteroid named after him
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KB5UAC
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Mike Foale - British born US astronaut
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KB6LQR
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Jeana Yeager - Pilot of non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft.
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KB6LQS
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Richard Glenn Rutan - Rutan Voyager aircraft designer and pilot for non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world
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KC5VWK
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Richard J. Abruzzo - World famous balloonist and world record holder; the first balloon voyage from North America to Africa.
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KC5ZSU
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Laurel Blair Salton Clark, M.D. - Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107.
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KC5ZTC
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David M. Brown. - Crew member of the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-107.
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KD4WUJ
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Patty Loveless - Country Music Singer
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KG4UYY
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James Lance Bass - 'N SYNC pop singer.
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KD5PLB
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Suni Williams - Suni has set a record for spacewalks by a female astronaut, a total of 29 hours, 17 minutes
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KG6FZX
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Dennis Tito - First space tourist
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KX2Z
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Tony Bonjovi - Cousin of Jon Bonjovi
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K1ADJ
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Peter Guber - Possibly Hollywood's most successful and powerful producer and executive.
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K1AKE
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James M. Moran - Leading researcher in the field of astronomical masers and black holes.
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K1OKI
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Mickey Schulhof - Head of Sony USA
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K2AMH
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"Bob" Moog - Invented the "Moog Synthesizer" amongst many other electronic instruments (sk)
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K2HEP
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John Sculley - former CEO of Pepsi
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K4ZVZ
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Paul Tibbits - pilot of the Ã’ Enola Gay Ã’ aircraft (The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima in WW2)
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K6BP
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Software engineer with movie credits on "A Bug's Life" and "Toy Story 2" also holds Also WA2TNM
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K9EID
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Bob Heil - Legendary sound engineer to such The Eagles & The Who, Head of Heil Sound
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LU1SM
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Carlos Saul Menem - President of Argentina
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M0SDX
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Sergei Rebrov - Professional soccer player
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M3HBM
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Joshua Baxter - Youngest radio ham to activate Snowdon Mountain Summit at 9 years old in 2005 as MW3HBM/P
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N5YYV
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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan Ph.D.- NASA astonaut. First American woman to walk in space 1984.
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N6FUP
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Stuart Alden Cook (Stu Cook) - Bass guitar player in American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival
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N9FZX
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Dr. Paul A. Flaherty - Co-inventor of the Alta Vista Search Engine.
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N9LC
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George Sweigert - Inventor of the mobile phone
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NY6YOS
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Priscilla Presley - (Lou Lou Beaulieu) Film star & businesswoman. Was Married to Elvis Presley
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OD5LE
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Emil Lahoud - President of Lebanon
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ON1AFD
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Count Dirk Fairmouth Ph.D. - Belgian Astronaut
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ON1DWN
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Frank De Winne. - European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. Flight engineer on the newly designed Soyuz, Odissea mission.
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PE1LFO
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Wubbo Johannes Ockels - First Dutch citizen in space and payload specialist on 2 missions
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RK3DUO
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Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko - Russian cosmonaut. Mir and ISS missions. He has been named a Hero of Russia, been awarded two Armed Forces medals and named a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honour
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RK3DUP
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Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko - Russian cosmonaut. The first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas,
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RN3DX
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Oleg Kononenko - Russian cosmonaut, flown on the ISS
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RO3FT
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Talgat Amangeldyuly Musabayev - Kazakhstan born cosmonaut, flight engineer of the Mir-25 mission. Later founded National Kazakhstan Space Agency and became Director of Aerospace Agency of Republic of Kazakhstan.
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SP9VRC
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Pawel Jalocha - Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system
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SU1VN
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Prince Talal of Saudi Arabia
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WA3SWS
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Stephen E. Uhrig - Surveillance expert who appeared with Gene Hackman in 1998 movie "Enemy of the State"
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WA6IOG
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Vern Orr - Secretary of the USAF at The Pentagon
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WB2LAV
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Russell Alan Hulse - Co-winner with K1JT of 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of binary pulsar
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WB6ACU
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Joe Walsh - Of The Eagles & James Gang
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WD4LZC
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Larnell Harris - Singer 7 Times Grammy Winner
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WD4SKT
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Donnie Osmond - Singer
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W1AW
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Hiram Percy Maxim - Prolific Inventor & most famous for inventing the firearms silencer & machine gun (sk)
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W1GBE
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Percy Lebaron Spencer - Inventor of the Microwave Oven, Senior Vice President of Raytheon Co.
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W2JOF
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Sir Cliff Richard - Singer (W2JOF is his USA callsign)
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W2QBO
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Wilson Greatbatch - Inventor of the cardiac pacemaker.
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W5CY
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Howard Hughes - Billionaire, Inventor, aviator, aircraft designer
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W5LFL
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Owen Garriott - First radio Amateur in Space, on Shuttle mission STS-9, launched November 28, 1983,
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W6DOE
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Clarence Leonidas Fender (Leo Fender) - He of Fender electric guitars. Prolific inventor & designer of instruments
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W6RO
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Queen Mary Ocean Liner - Wireless room operated by The Associated Radio Amateurs Of Long Beach Calif.
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W6UK
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Alvino Rey - Musician, reportedly invented / pioneered the electric guitar
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W6VZA
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Henry Richter - Brother of Charles Richter (He of the Richter Scale)
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W6YX
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Oswald Garrison - was the first to use the SSB mode for an amateur QSO with W0TQK in 1947
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W7DUK
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Nolan Bushnell - Inventor, Computer Pioneer, Founded Atari
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W9GTY
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Jack Kilby - Inventor, invented the microchip for Texas Instruments in 1958, then the hand held digital calculator
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W0TQK
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Mike Villard jr. - was the first to use the SSB mode for an amateur QSO with W6YX in 1947
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UA1LO
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Yuri Gagarin - First man in space (sk)
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UV3AM
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Musa Moronov - Russian Cosmonaut
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VE2QS
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Maurice Durieux - Canadian musician, composed CQ Serenade, possibly the only radio ham song?
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VK2BL
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Graham Conolly - Australian Radio broadcaster and former voice on VNG
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VK2KB
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Sir Allan Fairhall - Australian Statesman & Businessman
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VK2AHU
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Dick Huey - Professor - Emeritus (Previous callsign VK2HU)
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VK2CAX
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Dr. Ken McCracken - Founding Chief of CSIRO Mineral Physics
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VK5AX
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Alf Traeger - Inventor of the pedal powered wireless
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VU2LC1
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Permanent Lions Club Disaster station Bangalore India, operated by Lion Ajoy VU2JHM
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VU2RBI
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Bharathi Prasad - The only lifeline for thousands during the 2005 Tsunami. ~ "Teresa of the Bay of Bengal."
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VU2RG
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Rajiv Ghandi - Late Prime Minister of India (sk)
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VU2SON
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Sonia Ghandi - Widow of VU2RG
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XE1GC
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Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena - Inventor of the colour television Tri-colour Cathode Ray Tube 1940 (sk)
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YU1RL
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Radivoje Lazarevic - Yugoslav ambassador to Brazil
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ZK1AN
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Sir Thomas Davis - former Premier of The Cook Islands
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1XS
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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden - Made the first broadcast of the human voice and music, on Christmas Eve 1906
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2CVJ
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Robert Hart - First person in USA to receive a transatlantic T V image transmitted by John Logie Baird in 1928
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2KZ
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Station used by John Logie Baird in 1928 to transmit the first transatlantic TV signal from England to New York
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2YT
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3A0AG
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Prince Alberto Grimaldi - Monte Carlo, Monaco
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3BEC
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Arthur Middleton Young- Inventor of the first commercially practical helicopter, philosopher, poet and painter
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7L2NJY
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Dr Mamoru Mohri - Japanese astronaut
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9DRV
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David Packard - Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard.(sk). Bill Hewlett was probably a radio ham, callsign not known.
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9K2CS
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Prince Yousuf Al-Sabah
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9M1
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King of Malaya (possible sk)
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