From the high desert in the great American Southwest, I bid you all.

Good evening, good morning, good afternoon, as the case may be, actually here where I am.

The darkness has descended.

The heat remains about 81 degrees right down the high deserts.

And this is coast-to-coast a.m., covering 25 times zones, the entire globe.

Something to think about.

And so is the photograph I've got for you tonight on my webcam.

Not all will be interested in this, but it is a bit of history, and it comes from a fellow

named Mike Sullivan, who's a ham, K7 HQ, and what a wonderful picture he's sent.

He says, Hi, I thought you might be interested in a picture attached, which I have up there, of my grandfather's ham radio station taken in 1919.

Granddad was a pioneer in amateur radio, building his first station in 1913.

And the radio equipment pictured includes a detector, tuner, and audio amplifier that is genuine

DeForest built equipment.

Not just the DeForest audio tubes.

DeForest built a few pieces of complete equipment as well

today it's rare as hens teeth and would be worth a small fortune just after

world war one my grandfather

in the picture was part of the u s army signal corps

and he worked on developing the first radio communications with aircraft of any kind.

So I thought you might be interested.

What you see pictured there is indeed some of the very earliest radio equipment in the world.

So that is history.

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