Great video thanks for posting 🙂👍

Awesome video 🙂👍

Cliff Richard is not a ham. That call is for a Harry Webb, a deceased American.

Nice investigation. Many I did not know...Thank You

The only ones I ever contacted were JY1 King Hussain of Jordan and HZ1AA who was the USA Ambassador in Saudia Arabia. Sadly I missed Barry Goldwater the USA Senator.

If you can't communicate using CW then try semaphore flags. Nothing else will work.

7+ minutes for repeated info that could be summed up in 30 seconds.

There are more: King Hussein of Jordan (JY1), Spanish King Juan Carlos (EA6JC), Sir Roger Moore and of cause me (just kidding!)

This is nothing but a pride booster.

The late Art Bell, radio talk show host, was also a ham operator. I think most of the people on this list are dead.

Patty Loveless allowed her license to drop and is no longer a Ham

Joe Rudi is still a very active contester.

Dead, inactive or paper hams, this list is useless.

The FCC ruined it with the Vanity calls, that's why everyone is paying a renewal fee now. Makes it near impossible to pay with out a phone or cash app. My calls will be up for grabs in a few months when they expire.

hey, I am HS0ZCW; HS is only Thailand; 0Z are for Foreigners; CW turn out to be meaningful activation continuous waves or Morris code operations. In the United States, In the four call area Kentucky living there I gotta sign OK for USA. Because I was living in four district including Kentucky; the VUD came out in the automated list coming from the government agency in charge, the FCC. So since I was 17 years old, I've been K4VUD and having an American call sign meant I could get an HS0Z when I moved into Thailand as a foreigner. I love the fact that these two call signs are the only ones in the world to identify me; there's no gamer teenagers with such a distinction,nor guys tagging buildings with their unique shape they spray paint on. By international law, I am K4VUD and H0ZCW----- gamers and taggers are just pretending-- I am the real thing and always have been and always will be as long as international law holds among nations. When I visited Bhutan, Nepah, amd India

And we too!! 73

Feargal sharkey is another well known music entertainer well into ham radio.

You said ALL POWER IS DOWN!! Yet you say hams are there!!! Pure magic power??? Major omission in this video!! I’m sure many are wondering how this is capable! I believe you need to add a notice to this video!!! Yes, they have emergency backup power!! Battery? Solar! Wind! Etc. Thanks!!!

The link is a nasty JTDX HAM Radio software for JT65, JT9, T10 and FT8 modes

It's too complicated talking on amateur radio

Nicely done. You should have informed people where call signs came from and who formed them. History is also a good idea if your going to do a video on something. Informing people about something without the history is like leaving out the best part of the pizza. You open the box and there is nothing but a pile of dough. Just a thought

Wow this channel has 'hundreds' of subscribers! 🤣

Barry Goldwater

A badge of honor??? To use a funk radio from your basement?? What an assh

Don't be ga

Ronnie Milsap is a ham ( WB4KCG) and he used to be pretty active.

The Callsigns on QRZ are FREE! You can take them home. I have 773 Callsigns!

this video was ai generated

Loveless turned her license back in to the FCC a long time ago. Do any of these famous people ever get on the air even?

Meany you missed 👋I am but only one 😎

Hello from the Heart of America! KD0QMY

In Belize, the number is not a call area designator (we only have 400K people). Belize is assigned the entire V3 range, and it uses the V31 prefix for general-class licenses, and V32 for technician-class licenses, followed by two letters. In government communications, there is a hyphen between that prefix and the suffix (like V31-LK), though that is not transmitted.

Actually, with Tim Allen it was the other way around. His character was written as a ham largely because one of the show’s producers was a licensed amateur radio operator. It was only toward the end of the series that Tim Allen actually became a Technician Class Operator.

Ham Radio Operator can operate through Bsttery mode , they use it during power lines are down. 73

They used to have more geographic implication. I was first licensed in Wisconsin when I was 13. My call was KN9CAH. K meant I was in the US, N meant I was a Novice Class licensee, 9 meant I was in either Wisconsin, Illinois, or Michigan. The CAH was issued randomly and at the time one-up alphabetically. When I passed the General Class exam, I dropped the letter "N" in the prefix ergo K9CAH. After college I moved to Maryland for work (1964) and in those days you had to get a new call reflecting the area so I became W3DRV. The "3" indicating I was in Maryland, Delaware, PA or DC. Incentive licensing came in in the late 1960s and I lost the use of some frequencies until I upgraded to Amateur Extra class. In the late 1970s, if you held Extra Class and had been licensed for 20 years, on an "as available" basic you could request a two letter suffix. When I got into radio as a kid you had to be licensed the day after Marconi to have a two letter suffix. They were phased in batches. First dibs were hams who had Extra Class before it granted any extra privileges aside from "bragging" rights. That was practically no one. They it was phased in depending upon when you got Extra Class. I was in the first batch of that group and I got my initial "JT" so I was and still am W3JT. When they ran out of Ws the used K for the country prefix. Later, for a fee, they added "Vanity Callsigns" and you didn't have to change if you moved to a different area. My two former call have been reissued, one to a lady in GA, who has the "CAH" initials. I believe my W3DRV call has also been reissued. I have one other one ... KG4TJ (now expired) for a 1995 operation at US Controlled Guantanamo Bay, Cuba when I was down there for 10 days on a US government work assignment (I was a career Civil Servant.) That call was issued by the base, upon showing my US License.

Does the ISS still have a functioning HAM station (and operator) on board? 73 de Karl, VE3GUN

In India the number can mean the grade/level as well. VU is India code. 2 means a general grade license and 3 means a restricted grade license. How ever 4 and 7 become geographical locators for Andaman Island and Lakshadweep Islands. 😊

K0OWS Hello!

Holland PD2HSO

Let's keep it simple, KC's leave Hertz out of it. Tesla Fan 73

I have spoken to the scientists in Antarctic, and once did a very brief QSO with Troops in Iraq during the War, IDF Soldiers in the 90's out on recon in tanks, Secret Sub base in then USSR, Fine Police Chief middle of night patrol, Professors in Turkey, Egypt, and perhaps even one of the mentioned "Celebs" because on Amateur Radio every one is just a friendly Call Sign. VA3MPL

Tamang tama ito kabayan, lalo na papasok ang typhoon season. I will share this with others. Anyway, may binebenta ka pa bang affordable old school na hf? Hehe. '73, DW1QEW.

Fred Gwynne, the actor that played Herman Munster among many other roles in shows and movies such as Car 54, CBS Radio Mystery Theater and My Cousin Vinny was an Amateur Radio operator.

I would love to be able to see the history of the call signs that I have. I tried searching awhile back to see who held them in the past but can't find that info.

David Letterman is an avid Shortwave listener.

G'day from "Risky Outpost" Queensland

Great video KC3YUN

Since 1968 I have had/used 4 callsigns. 2 of which were issued in error by the relevant authority. ZC4MO from Troodos , on top of Mount Olympus, Cyprus , Troodos was about 30 miles outside the Sovereign Base area. Should have been 5B4MO. took many years to find and resolve the error. DA2GJ. Because I had a US Army APO Postal Address the German Authorities thought I was American. Call sign should have been DA6xx. Such is life. If you have a ZC4MO QSL card it counts as 5B4 as does cards from my mate Eric ZC4ER. Still active today as G4JIU

Amateur radio is an excellent tool for finding the opinion of those close to an event without bias.

AI7VS here 😊 have a nice day.