Famous Ham List
IK1MNJ' s Famous Ham List
Callsign | Name | Claim to Fame | Notes | QSO Date | QSL sent | QSL rcv |
King Hussein | King of Jordan; was very active ham before his passing; touching memorial here | (SK) 07-FEB1999 (63) | 23Jun1995 - 20m ssb | Direct to | YES | |
HZ1TA | Talal bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud | Prince Talal bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia | 03Jan1998 - 20m ssb | Bureau to | NO | |
LU1SM | Carlos Saul Menem | President of Argentina (1989 - 1999 ) | 28Jul1990 - 15m ssb | Direct to | NO | |
SV2ASP/A | Father Apollo | Father Monk Apollo, Missionary - Mount Athos, Greece | 9 qso ssb rtty, between March 2004 and 16Jan2010 | Direct | YES | |
GM3ITN | Les Hamilton | Scottish printer who first alerted England of Argentine invasion of the Falklands on April 2, 1982. See article | 13Dec1995 - 80m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
M0SDX | Sergey Rebrov | Professional soccer player; (ex-UT5UDX); reportedly, Rebrov is now playing for a Turkish club and using call TA2ZF; QSL card. | 07Dec2000 - 40m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
W1AW | Hiram Percy Maxim | Inventor, radio pioneer, early aviation pioneer; ARRL Founder also known as "The Old Man." a picture of Maxim's 1915 Station (1ZM); the firearms silencer (for which he may be more famous than ham radio); Burial site. | (SK) 17-FEB-1936 (66) | 12 qso, ssb cw between 1988 to 2004, 30/20/17/15/12 | Bureau | YES |
KA1FZQ | Lawrence S. Bacow | President of Tufts University. | 22Apr1995 - 17m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
KZ1Z | Peter Kemp | ARRL Professional Teacher of the Year ( co-winner) | two recent QSO jan 2006 RTTY 20 and 40m | 17Feb2004 17m psk31 | Bureau | YES |
WB2AQC | George Pataki | This prolific traveler/writer ham is responsible for lobbying Senator Barry Goldwater to sponsor the legislation that eliminated the rule that limited licensing to US citizens only. He also helped supply information that led to the publishing of the first callbook (American Flying Horse) of Soviet radio amateur callsigns. This encouraged other Eastern European radio clubs to send their lists to the CallBook and the secrecy and prohibition was ended! | 25Dec1992 - 10m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
KA2ORK | Mark Barettella | Medical student who was sole source of communication from Grenada during U.S. invasion on October 25, 1983 (now licensed as N2MD). | 09Feb2000 - 12m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
NE2Q | Jay Kolinsky | In 1969, invented and manufactured the electronic sirens used on most burglar and fire alarm systems throughout the world . U.S. Trademark "Earsplitter". Holds a number of other U.S. patents. (ex-WV2BLX, WA2BLX). See Jay's OpEd on p. 95 of Feb. 2003 "QST" Greater Norwalk ARC; Malm's official web site | 03Dec1993 - 80m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
KA2WEU | Dr. Ulrich L. Rohde | From the Rohde & Schwarz company; press release: elected IEEE fellow; | 17Nov1966 - 17m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
W3DEF | Stephen Aug | broadcast and print journalist (now semi-retired); former business correspondent for ABC News and "Good Morning America"; "Old Radio" Column (ex K2EOF) | 15Dec1995 - 17m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
W3SON | Richard Dean | Radio & TV Station Owner, including KNZZ Grand Junction CO. | 04Jan1996 - 17m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
KD3P | Scudder Georgia | Medal of Freedom recipient, WWII OSS operative, founding member and senior communications chief of Central Intelligence Agency. | (SK) 26-DEC-2000 (86) | 8Feb1992 - 17m ssb | Bureau | NO |
K4EB/m | Larry Junstrom | Bass Guitar player for the rock group 38 Special; | 24Dec2000 - 12m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
K5AQ | Donald Hall | Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia at Texas A & M University | 18May2003 - 17m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
N5IN | Dr. Ronald A. Stordahl | Founder, CEO and Chairman of Digi-Key Corp., one of the top ten U.S. electronics distributors, named for the digital electronic keyer that he developed and marketed while obtaining his Ph.D. in electrical engineering. (ex-K0UXQ); ; Dayton 2002 Hamvention picture | 03Feb2002 - 12m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
W6AQ/8 | Dave Bell | Movie producer; (ex-W6BVN); Dave's picture. | 28Jul1999 - 12m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
K6DUE/4 | Roy Neal | Late TV personality/producer; retired NBC News correspondent; major expert in spaceflight and science; starred in ham radio videos. | SK) 12-AUG-2003 (82) | 06Oct1991 - 10m ssb | Bureau | NO |
K6DXK | Ernest P. Lehman | Writer, Producer, Actor, Director; won Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement 25-MAR-2001. | 01May1989 - 20m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
K6FG | Mark Weiss | Cpmmissioner LA. CO. Superior Court | 31May1993 - 17m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
W6FY | Ben Moses | Emmy-winning writer and TV/movie director and producer, who produced 1987 movie "Good Morning, Vietnam" (ex-W6TJR, W2GGV). | 17Oct2001 - 12m ssb | Eqsl | E-QSL | |
W6KHJ | Beau Weaver | Radio Personality and voiceover specialist; | 26Dec2000 - 12m ssb | Direct | YES | |
K6MYC | Michael B. Staal | Pioneered many ham designs and products, especially, antennas, as 1960s-80s owner of now-defunct KLM. Known for excellent antennas, amplifiers and other radio products. Now with (since 1980s) M2 Inc. antenna company; M2 Systems, | 12Jan1996 - 80m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
K6UI | Ross Adey (DR) | Former Withe House advisor on electromagnetic radiations | 30Oct1999- 12m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
N6VL | Joe Westheimer | Optical Effect Expert | 20Dec2003 - 15m psk31 | Bureau | NO | |
W6NL | Dr. David B. Leeson | Founding Chairman and past CEO of California Microwave, Inc.; Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University; IEEE Life Fellow; author of "Physical Design of Yagi Antennas," published by ARRL; (ex-HC8L, ex-W6QHS). | 07Mar2000 - 20m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
W6RJ | Robert Ferrero | President of the Ham Radio Outlet | 18Sep1989 - 80m ssb | Direct Bureau | YES | |
W6UK | Alvino Rey | Radio/TV/Records, reportedly invented the electric guitar; OOTC# 1047; ex-6UE; Walt Maxwell, W2DU, played trumpet in Rey's band in the 40's. Obituary in the "New York Times" 27-FEB-2004. | (SK) 24-FEB-2004 (95) | 18Oct2001 - 12m ssb | Bureau | NO |
W6VIO | Robert R Smit | Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena CA | 19Oct1999 - 17m ssb | Bureau | YES | |
N7ML | Craig M. "Mike" Lamb | Founder of AEA Electronics. | 29Jan1995 - 20m ssb | Bureau | NO | |
K7UGA | Barry Goldwater | late US Senator/vociferous friend of amateur radio. (ex-6BIP and K3UIG - his Washington, DC, callsign); | (SK) 29-MAY-1998 (89) | 20Oct2001 - 10m ssb | Bureau | YES |
W0BC | Wade H. Williams Jr | Founded Associated Radio right after WWII, retiring in 1991. He had over 1000 hours of flight time over the Pacific routes in WWII and has contributed to amateur radio in many ways. His last commercial product was the BC-Matcher a small mobile antenna matcher; | (SK) 21-APR-2003 (81) | 06Aug1992 - 17m ssb | Bureau | NO |
KH6IJ | Kathasi Nose | Radio columnist and former Phisics Professor | (SK) | 24Feb1989 - 15m ssb | Bureau | YES |
EA0JC | King Juan Carlos | King Juan Carlos, Madrid Spain | 18Jan2010 - 40m cw | Bureau | NO | |
K6DUE | Roy Neal | TV Personality, Produces/Stars in Ham Radio videos | K6DUE/4 | 06 Oct 1991 | Bureau | NO |