Ham radio is people! Ham radio is all about people! All kinds of
people!  People just like you.....the folks next door, down the
block, around your town and around the world.  Ham radio started
long ago with nothing more than a SPARK of electricity! Long
before radio as we know it today came about, long before you and
I were born, PEOPLE were experimenting with the latest
technology around the turn of the last century, with something
called ELECTRICITY and....HMMMMM, they wondered if there was any
way that it could be used to send messages THRU THE AIR WITHOUT
WIRES! After lots of experimentation by lots of PEOPLE, they
discovered that yes, in fact, you could send and receive
messages with that spark thru the air over an unseen medium
called an electromagnetic wave! Radio was born! These people,
after much trial and error, soon learned how to build   "Home
brewed" spark generators and crude receivers that could "hear"
the spark from a few feet away. The next step was to increase
the distance the spark could b