CALLSIGN NAME OR LOCATION A41AA Oaboos Bin Asid Al Said - Sultan of Oman CN8MH King Hassan II - King of Morocco (sk) EA0JC King Carlos of Spain F5VBY Brother of Ray Dolby - Inventor of the Dolby Sound System F5VBX Ann Dolby - Wife of F5VBY 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 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) 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 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 I0FCG Francego Cossiga - Former Italian President 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 KB2GSD Walter Cronkite - "The worlds most recognised" US television newsreader - Walter has an asteroid named after him KB5UAC Mike Foale - British born US astronaut KD4WUJ Patty Loveless - Country Music 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. 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 “ Enola Gay “ aircraft 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 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 - Belgian Astronaut 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) W2JOF Sir Cliff Richard - Singer (W2JOF is his USA callsign) W5CY Howard Hughes - Billionaire, Inventor, aviator, aircraft designer 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) 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 UA1LO Yuri Gagarin - First man in space (sk) UV3AM Musa Moronov - Russian Cosmonaut 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 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) You don't have to be famous, almost anyone may become become a radio amateur - just complete the course & pass the exam. It is estimated that world wide that around 1 in 2000 people are radio amateurs, it is not a minority activity & growing !! Remember .. Lions are Ordinary People doing Amazing Things ... Some Lions are radio amateurs