Listening to shortwave broadcast and the radio amateur hobby are fairly popular all over the world, and provide millions of people with a useful and entertaining activity. If we operate in wave band allocated for amateurs, or if we simply observe conversations and connections there, we still do not have much of an idea of what sort of people could be behind the call signs made up of letters and members. Since they usually do not say more about themselves than their first name and the town or city, their QTH, and where they operate from.

Actually, there could be real sensations behind certain impersonal call signs : the simple combination of letters and members may hide actors, politicians, country leaders, and other celebrities who are well known in their capacities, but we do not know that they are radio amateurs at the same time. It is not strange at all, since one is short wave radioning and be devoted to this hobby in almost any job.

There is an old saying that "being a radio amateur is the king of hobbies", but their saying is also true when reserved : "being a radio amateur may be the hobby of kings". Next, we provide you with a list of well-known persons who are also radio amateur bonds, and have their own call signs. They can sometimes be heard in the amateur bands, and those lucky enough may manage to establish contact with them.

A41AA : Qaboos bin Said al-Said, Sultan of Oman
CN8MH : Hassan, King of Morocco
E6QJC : Juan Carlos, King of Spain
FO5GJ : Marlon Brando, American actor
HA1A : Bhumipol Adulyadej, King of Thailand

K1JT : Dr. Joseph Taylor, 1933 Nobel lanreate in physics
K2ORS : Jean Sheppard, American comedian actor
K4ZVZ : Paul Tibbets, Captain of aircraft Enola Gay which dropped the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima

K7UGA : Barry Goldwater, former American Senator
KB6OLJ : Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician
LU1SM : Carlos Saul Menem, President of Argentina
N6YDS : Priscilla Presley, actress, widow of Elvis Presley

SV2ASP / A : A monk by the name of Apollo from the monostery of the Mount Athos
VU2SDN : Sonia Gandhi, widow of the late Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi
W6ZZ : Samuel F.B. Morse II
W6QYZ : Roger Mahony, American Cardinal