20 Celebrities You Didn't Know Are Ham Radio Enthusiasts

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
  • Did you know these famous celebrities were ham radio operators? Some may surprise you!
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    0:00 Top 20 Ham Radio Celebrities
    0:01 Yuri Gagarin UA1LO
    0:03 John Sculley K2HEP
    0:05 Andy Thomas VK5MIR
    0:07 Tim Allen KK6OTD
    0:17 Juan Carlos EA0JC
    0:19 Marlon Brando FO5GJ
    0:23 Priscilla Presley NY6YOS
    0:26 Dr. Joe Taylor K1JT
    0:28 Bob Heil K9EID
    0:30 Jet Jurgensmeyer KE0UWZ
    0:32 Sir Cliff Richard W2JOF
    0:34 Walter Cronkite KB2GSD
    0:36 King Hussain of Jordan JY1
    0:38 Herman Munster
    0:42 Dick Smith VK2DIK
    0:44 Joe Walsh WB6ACU
    0:46 Patty Loveless KD4WUJ
    0:48 Doug Wheelock KF5BOC
    0:50 Chris Hadfield KC5RNJ
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Комментарии • 117

  • @the1spyderryder
    @the1spyderryder Год назад +37

    Astronauts are required to get at least a technician license.

  • @c.shepherd9866
    @c.shepherd9866 Год назад +21

    It’s just astounding you left off Art Bell.

    • @phillipsmiley5930
      @phillipsmiley5930 Год назад +2

      W6OBB

    • @Swoop180
      @Swoop180 6 месяцев назад +3

      Lord have mercy, I sure miss the original AM After Midnight! It got me many 100's of thousand miles down the road! I would go as far to say it was single handedly the main reason I ended up being a night driver... The miles just seemed to click on by and before I knew it, it was time for an 8 hour break!

    • @c.shepherd9866
      @c.shepherd9866 6 месяцев назад +2

      100% @@Swoop180

    • @Twisted-wizard
      @Twisted-wizard 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Swoop180 still pi$$d at geroge norey for stealing his show. Was Art's show will always be Arts show.. in my heart..

    • @Swoop180
      @Swoop180 6 месяцев назад +1

      @frankdusenbury I don't think George Norey stole the show. From best of memory, Art Bell was receiving credible death threats against himself and his family.

  • @KyleSoldani
    @KyleSoldani 25 дней назад

    Didn’t know Bob Heil was a ham enthusiast? That’s all I know him for 😂. 73s, Bob. Rest well!

  • @dcolb121
    @dcolb121 5 месяцев назад +3

    Tim Allen had a Heathkit HW-101 behind his left shoulder.

  • @warrenva3web567
    @warrenva3web567 2 года назад +22

    Chris Hadfield may have had a US call while working with NASA, but his current call is VA3OOG.

    • @the1spyderryder
      @the1spyderryder 7 месяцев назад

      He as others can hold a British as well as American call at the same. I know several Brits who hold both.

    • @sproctor1958
      @sproctor1958 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@the1spyderryder
      I thought he was Canadian.
      Not being familiar with their system, are they still regulated by Great Britain?
      Thx.

  • @TheNoCodeTech
    @TheNoCodeTech 3 года назад +17

    That was fun and insightful.

  • @stoundingresults
    @stoundingresults 2 года назад +51

    Love Tim Allen calling it like it is.

    • @silasarpagaus3520
      @silasarpagaus3520 Год назад +11

      You know he's a convicted drug smuggler right

    • @Evan2
      @Evan2 Год назад +12

      @@silasarpagaus3520 That happened in 1978. Says nothing about him as a person now.

    • @JH-xc4ur
      @JH-xc4ur Год назад +12

      @@silasarpagaus3520 You know you used to pee the bed, right?

    • @silasarpagaus3520
      @silasarpagaus3520 Год назад +4

      @@JH-xc4ur Funny how you equate a natural bodily function with international crime

    • @JH-xc4ur
      @JH-xc4ur Год назад +7

      @@silasarpagaus3520 I'm equating change with change. Seems to me, everyone who focuses on someone else's past so much has enough of their own.

  • @Bruce-vq7ni
    @Bruce-vq7ni 10 месяцев назад +2

    So Sir Cliff Richard really is wired for sound 🔊

  • @vitooiznop8053
    @vitooiznop8053 Год назад +8

    How about Gary Shandling, Arthur Godfrey, Chet Atkins, and Ronny Milsap?

  • @hazelwood55
    @hazelwood55 10 месяцев назад +4

    Sen. Barry Goldwater was a ham radio operator. My dad talked to him.

    • @ruten45
      @ruten45 10 месяцев назад +2

      I talked with him often while he was in DC and in AZ. My call is WB5YTA. My first conversation was when I lived in Lubbock, TX and we talked for almost 30 minutes. I had a TH6DXX antenna at 70’ on top of the Rohn 25 Tower and was using a Kenwood TS520. Additionally, I talked with him on 40 Meters one night off a dipole that I threw up into the trees while in Bell county, at West Fort Hood or Grey Base. Only talked for about five minutes when someone decided they wanted to butt in instead of waiting. He called me on the phone afterward and we were not interrupted! I saw him at an air show in Tucson and we visited for about an hour during lunch.

    • @dieterhauer8619
      @dieterhauer8619 10 месяцев назад +1

      K7UGA

    • @zitiboylilo5789
      @zitiboylilo5789 5 месяцев назад

      My grandmother cursed his ass out and he called her a white N word because she was Sicilian 😂 she said she was so offended and confused all at the same time, all they could do was laugh out loud 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @fubarsnafu4994
    @fubarsnafu4994 Год назад +7

    Art Bell - Silent key - W6OBB

  • @bebo5558
    @bebo5558 3 года назад +12

    Ronnie Milsap, country singer! KB4KCG

    • @orcuser
      @orcuser 3 года назад

      Prisoner of the highway

    • @cheech1450
      @cheech1450 2 года назад

      KB4 Kissing Country Gentleman

    • @bebo5558
      @bebo5558 2 года назад +1

      Phenomenal singer and musician, I've seen him 3 times in concert!

  • @eugenecbell
    @eugenecbell 3 года назад +9

    And Jean Shepard

  • @wild-radio7373
    @wild-radio7373 3 года назад +9

    Was Heddy Lamar a ham? She has earned her place on the list anyways I think ;) ♡♡♡
    Cool video
    🤜🏻👍🤛🏻

    • @ku4uv
      @ku4uv 2 года назад +4

      No, she was an engineer but never held a ham license to the best of my knowledge.

  • @bobd.
    @bobd. Год назад +4

    That's a pretty short list. I think you left out about 500 others who have gone on to do great things.

  • @sleeve8651
    @sleeve8651 3 года назад +4

    I thought I read where Country singer Loretta Lynn was also licensed at one time, along with Patty Loveless and a number of other Country Stars !
    I think many before cell phone and internet days ?
    I often wondered if they used VHF/UHF Ham bands, to escape the clutter on 11 meter Citizens Band, while touring convoy style with othe artists ?
    🔊 🎶 🎶🤔........?

    • @HamRadioDX
      @HamRadioDX  3 года назад

      That's a really good point and very valid one too! Ham bands would be easier to communicate on for them than CB back then

    • @sleeve8651
      @sleeve8651 3 года назад

      @@HamRadioDX That's the only thing I could figure ?
      People like Ronnie
      Milsap, and we can't forget Joe Walsh, were pretty hard core operator's.
      But hearing some of the other's named, seemed the only logical explanation was using it between vehicle's ?
      Although I've never heard any stories of Hams working any celebrities as they mobiled around, but there might be some ?
      My guess, they likely used some unorthodox frequencies while putt'n around the Country !
      Pretty neat contact, if you could ever snag one !
      Even better if you could get them to QSL !
      HI !
      '73

    • @JamesEeDee
      @JamesEeDee Год назад

      That's how I got started in this radio hobby while vacationing in a car/suv convoy from campground to campground...

  • @abelgranado7569
    @abelgranado7569 7 месяцев назад +1

    I'm looking in to ham radio but for beginners. amateur radio, I see Tim, Marlon, presley. That's pretty cool.

    • @rjl9707
      @rjl9707 4 месяца назад +1

      Same here. No internet, no cell, etc. is a good motivator. Entry level hand held units here in Canada for 60$. Then licensing.

  • @rockoorbe2002
    @rockoorbe2002 2 месяца назад

    Did Mel Blanc ever do ham radio? I know he started on commercial radio and he had a huge presence on the Southern California CB radio scene. Sometimes using one of his voices like Bugs or Daffy.

  • @amiraly8852
    @amiraly8852 3 месяца назад

    RIP Bob Heil

  • @williamgreenleaf9302
    @williamgreenleaf9302 3 года назад +2

    KD2QOJ Fun to watch

  • @mindblast3901
    @mindblast3901 Год назад +1

    LOL Cliff Richard

  • @wecontrolthevideo
    @wecontrolthevideo 6 месяцев назад +1

    If Priscilla Presley is a ham, the call NY6NOS can’t be valid. The FCC does not issue 2x3 calls that start with N, only 2x3 calls starting with K or W are being used.

    • @HamRadioDX
      @HamRadioDX  6 месяцев назад

      Typo.. actually callsign was N6YOS. No longer active.

  • @duskoveselinovic456
    @duskoveselinovic456 Год назад +1

    Paul Tibbets K4ZVZ

  • @BadassWeldingVideos
    @BadassWeldingVideos 2 года назад

    Thank you for the giant list of calls to spoof with

    • @HamRadioDX
      @HamRadioDX  2 года назад

      You’re welcome! Have fun

  • @g0fvt
    @g0fvt Год назад

    There are a lot more famous people that hold or have held licences. I suspect a significant proportion have never been on air.

  • @barrykery1175
    @barrykery1175 2 года назад +1

    21....Ronnie Milsap, country music singer.
    Barry

  • @silasarpagaus3520
    @silasarpagaus3520 Год назад +14

    Tim Allen talking about drug dealers becoming heroes... The irony

    • @silasarpagaus3520
      @silasarpagaus3520 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@Medieval1-1 no he didn't, he just smuggled it into the country

    • @networkoperations
      @networkoperations 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@silasarpagaus3520I think he was just a hoover vacuum when it came to cocaine, and him keeping his daily stash on him qualified as muling.

    • @ano1962
      @ano1962 5 месяцев назад

      Don’t say anything bad about Tim Allen or sensitive people will get mad

  • @W6IWN_Radio
    @W6IWN_Radio 8 месяцев назад

    Your voice is in x2 speed wtf! Great collection

    • @HamRadioDX
      @HamRadioDX  8 месяцев назад +1

      Too much helium!

  • @py2rpjrubens450
    @py2rpjrubens450 Год назад

    And many others, dont' forget SP3RN! 73 from Brasil

  • @MirlitronOne
    @MirlitronOne 9 дней назад

    Actually, I don't know nine of these celebrities. Never heard of them.

  • @davidstover5651
    @davidstover5651 Год назад

    David Stover ,KF0JTC-Kansas.

  • @r4wbd751
    @r4wbd751 2 года назад +2

    Gagarin ua1lo?

  • @joewoodchuck3824
    @joewoodchuck3824 3 года назад +1

    They were hard to read with such short duration screen time and trying to read through another layer of text.

  • @loueckert4970
    @loueckert4970 Год назад

    Cool 73 de KT1R

  • @gooberclown
    @gooberclown Год назад +1

    I've always thought the Ham Radio hobby could overlap with an amateur effort at S.E.T.I. (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Ham's are great at salvaging things like parabolic dish antenna 📡 for listening in on the stars!

    • @the1spyderryder
      @the1spyderryder 7 месяцев назад +1

      There are many hams from SETI I have met a few of them

  • @ku4uv
    @ku4uv 2 года назад +1

    Not all of the celebrities in this video are current ham radio licensees. Patty Loveless and Priscilla Presley are no longer licensed.

    • @jhopkins213
      @jhopkins213 Год назад

      Some of them are SK too!

    • @dieterhauer8619
      @dieterhauer8619 10 месяцев назад

      Yep, I believe that Loveless actually CANCELED her license.

  • @f1sls
    @f1sls 10 месяцев назад +2

    There is a little mistake about Marlon Brando's callsign. It was Foxtrott *Oscar* 5 Golf Juliet. FO is the prefix for French Polynesia in the South-Pacific.

  • @vcash1112
    @vcash1112 Год назад

    FMRS no stinky ham needed😮

  • @alanf403
    @alanf403 Месяц назад

    Art Bell W6OBB

  • @captain-Luca-is0hmz
    @captain-Luca-is0hmz 10 месяцев назад

    Samanta Cristoforetti IU0UDF

  • @kieludwig2012
    @kieludwig2012 Год назад

    Herman call Sign was w6xrl

  • @clems6989
    @clems6989 3 года назад +2

    God, Mandy (Molly Ephram) is a gorgeous doll baby. I wish she would come operate my station...

  • @Twisted-wizard
    @Twisted-wizard 6 месяцев назад

    Tim Allen call sign was created for the show...kk6 NTT ( NOT TIM TAYLOR)

    • @HamRadioDX
      @HamRadioDX  6 месяцев назад

      Actually… his fictional callsign from the show is KA0XTT. His real life callsign is KK6OTD.

    • @Twisted-wizard
      @Twisted-wizard 6 месяцев назад

      @@HamRadioDX wow I never knew he is a real ham ...
      I always thought that it was one of the behind the scenes staff ..
      Thanks..

    • @newhampshireoutdoornetwork9505
      @newhampshireoutdoornetwork9505 4 месяца назад

      His real name is Tim Dick not Tim Allen

  • @aland7236
    @aland7236 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love Tim Allen's statement here since he did time for getting busted running cocaine in Michigan. Just another hypocrite.

    • @ano1962
      @ano1962 5 месяцев назад

      Don’t say anything about Tim or you’ll offend some sensitive people

  • @joemason9187
    @joemason9187 Год назад

    The voice says 20 famouse celebrity ham radio operators not really true, 20 famouse celebrities who have ham radio certification! Just sayin...

  • @towerman75
    @towerman75 11 месяцев назад

    All No Code Techs.

  • @marketingmixture
    @marketingmixture 9 месяцев назад

    Sir Cliff Richard is not a ham - error

  • @tom-ehill2713
    @tom-ehill2713 Год назад

    Who'd of thunk?!!!

  • @othoapproto9603
    @othoapproto9603 8 месяцев назад

    Knowing Tim Allen is a HAM give me second thoughts on getting my cert.

  • @markvanleeuwen6678
    @markvanleeuwen6678 9 месяцев назад

    How bout ART BELL / ANDY DEVINE

    • @the1spyderryder
      @the1spyderryder 7 месяцев назад

      I didnt know that Andy Devine was a ham.

  • @aarontooth
    @aarontooth 8 месяцев назад

    What was that about drug dealers?

    • @ano1962
      @ano1962 5 месяцев назад

      Don’t say anything or the Tim fans boys will get really offended

  • @thegrimmer
    @thegrimmer 10 месяцев назад

    "Famous" lolol

  • @ronjones4069
    @ronjones4069 10 месяцев назад

    Virtually all of the celeb hams are totally inactive and have never done anything with it. The few active hams you list are famous among the ham community but not real hams. Only Joe Walsh is actually a bit of a celeb and fairly active. The reality is, and we should admit it and not lie to ourselves, no one really cares about ham radio and celebs can't be bothered with it

    • @HamRadioDX
      @HamRadioDX  10 месяцев назад

      The fact you commented on this video shows you at least care about ham radio and celebrities.

    • @ronjones4069
      @ronjones4069 5 месяцев назад

      I absolutely care about the hobby, but if we put our heads in the sand and think that the public knows about us or gives a damn about our little nitch hobby then the legislatures, whom the public votes for, will simply do away with us and the minor pain in the ass we are for them. Admit that we are unknown and do something about it or we will no longer exist. Our entire hobby could be eliminated with the stroke of a pin by people put in power by the public that doesn't know or care about us.

  • @sharetherisk7647
    @sharetherisk7647 Год назад

    And how many are on-the-air besides Bob Heil? ZERO!!!

    • @n0trk
      @n0trk Год назад

      Some of them are dead.. but JY1 was on a lot -

  • @TheRealBatCave
    @TheRealBatCave 2 года назад

    U call these people?

  • @nccrchurchunusual7990
    @nccrchurchunusual7990 5 месяцев назад

    A lot of these ppl are dead...

  • @polarbear4696
    @polarbear4696 11 месяцев назад

    Love Tim talking straight, but in all seriousness, nobody has ever been fined for simply talking without a proper license. Not saying it's legal though.

  • @phillipsmiley5930
    @phillipsmiley5930 Год назад

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