The Beginner's Handbook of Amateur Radio

Complete Get-Hamming and Get-Your-License Kit

You don't need any special training or skills to begin. All you need is this book! Clay Laster explains radio and electronics fundamentals needed to set up a transmitter and become a licensed "ham" operator from the ground up.

Reflecting both the newest equipment and revisions to the Federal Communications Commission rules and tests, this guide gives anyone interested in amateur radio:

• An exciting introduction to shortwave--used for round-the-world fun and communications, for emergency and disaster signaling, and, yes, still used by spies
• All the guidance you need to become a ham radio operator
• A mini-course in electronics, focused on radio fundamentals
• Understandable instruction in wave propagation, power supplies, and electronic circuits
• Complete study guide for getting your Novice Operator or No-Code Technician Class licenses
• Study hints for preparing for FCC exams
• Recent FCC RF Safety Rules and Guidelines
• 384 FCC Technician Class Question Pool with Answers
• Shortwave operator's do's-and-don't's, practices and procedures

Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction to amature Radio
• Chapter 2: How to Prepare for the FCC Technician Class
• Chapter 3: Radio Communications Theory
• Chapter 4: Principles of Electricy and Magnetism
• Chapter 5: Tubes and Semiconductors
• Chapter 6: Power Supplies
• Chapter 7: Electronic Circuits
• Chapter 8: Introduction to Radio Transmitters
• Chapter 9: Introduction to Radio Receivers
• Chapter 10: all about Transmission LInes and antennas
• Chapter 11: RF Radiation Safety and Radio
• Index