 1ANB |
Phillip Hagar Smith | Inventor of "Smith Chart" used to calculate transmission-line impedance. |
| 2CVJ (also W2CVJ) |
Robert Hart | First person in USA to receive a transatlantic T V image transmitted by John Logie Baird. |
 6BHI |
Dr. Harold A. Zahl | Military electronics and radar pioneer who invented Zahl radar tube used throughout WWII. RADAR built with his design detected the planes that attacked Pearl Harbor, although they were mistakenly thought to be friend, not foe, at the time. |
| AK1A | Richard A. Newell (Dick Newell) |
Invented Packet Cluster thus changing the face of DXing. |
| G3EUR | Major John Brown | Designer of the WW2 spy B2 suitcase radios. Founder of the Duxford Radio Society. |
| G3PLX | Peter Martinez | Co- Inventor of the PSK31 digital transmission system. |
 K2AMH |
Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (Bob Moog) |
Inventer of the famous "Moog Synthesizer" amongst many other electronic instruments. |
 K2GL |
Hazard E. Reeves | Invented the stereophonic sound system used with Cinerama. |
 KA9Q |
Phil Karn | Developed basis for wireless internet communications by adapting Internet communications protocol (TCP/IP) for radio use; |
 N4CBC |
Lt. Col. John H. DeWitt | Completed first moonbounce (Earth-Moon-Earth / EME) transmission from Fort Monmouth, NJ, on 10 January 1946. |
 N1ZSU |
Theodore Y. Ts'o (Ted Ts'o) |
Linux kernel developer. |
 S53MV |
Matjaz Vidmar | Designer and builder of high-speed (11 MB/s) amateur digital network, several AO-40 satellite components, VHF/UHF/microwave radios. |
| W6VR | Faust Gonsett | Amateur radio author and technician. Founder of Gonset Laboratories. Brought affordable VHF equipment to amateur market. |
| W6CGD | Dr Clyde E. Wiegand | Renowned physicist who worked on Manhattan Project and present at first detonation of atomic bomb. |
 W6DOE |
Clarence Leonidas Fender (Leo Fender) |
Prolific musical-instrument inventor, including the legendary Telecaster and Stratocaster Fender electric guitars. |
 W6QYT |
Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr. (Mike Villard) |
Renowned RADAR and SSB pioneer, RF engineer, Stanford University researcher, and technical author. |
 W7DUK |
Nolan K. Bushnell | Inventor, Computer Pioneer, Founded Atari and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. |
 W8GZ |
Major General Loren G. Windom | Inventor of the Windom antenna (1929). |
 W8PAL |
Alfred Irving Gross (Al Gross) |
Communications Pioneer. Inventor of the "walkie-talkie"; inventor of the Citizens' Radio Service aka "Citizens' Band." Invented the telephone pager. Read his short history here. |
 W9GTY |
Jack St. Clair Kilby | Invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments (TI). He is also the inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer. |
| WA2JXX | Gerson Strassberg | Inventor of the plastic pocket protector.  |
 WA4DSY |
Dale A. Heatherington | PC modem pioneer and co-inventor of "smartmodem" with Dennis Hayes. Co-founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products in 1978. |
 WA6BND (Also WA6VLY) |
Stephen Gary Wozniak (Steve Wozniak / Woz) |
Co-founder of Apple Computer in 1976 (the technical brains behind Apple - without him, nothing would have happened). He had his licence by 6th grade (11–12 years old). |
 WB4APR |
Bob Bruninga | Developer of APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System). |
 WB6EWU |
John Draper | In the late 60s and 70s he was known as the notorious "phone phreak" "Captain Crunch". Famous for his use of the telephone "blue box" - a device for defeating the telephone company's long distance billing equipment (the device was built by an engineer friend of his.) While serving a sentence related to his phone phreaking activities, John wrote the EasyWriter word processing program - the first popular word processor for the Apple 2. Longtime friend of Steve "the Woz" Wozniak (WA6BND). |
 XE1GC |
Guillermo González Camarena | Inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and introduced color television to Mexico. |