Famous Ham Radio Operators and their Callsigns

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