[dwt204]

I think that we have to ack the not so small role of ham radio operators. I was one as a kid, and that was all my Homer and my club buddies talked about. They took the impossible and made it happen much like the folks who population this ecosystem. That includes computers as well. I switched from a iambic paddle to send morse code to a ZX 81 kit that sent and received Morse ASCII etc, flawlessly and at higher speeds than I could send even with the paddle. In everyone of these technologies, you will see the hand of ham radio operators in the background, doing the experiments, making the rigs, etc.