The Radio Amateur's Handbook

Amateur Radio, also called ham radio, is a unique hobby and also a useful service that brings together people, radio, and communication together. It allows you to communicate from the comfort of your den, from behind a steering wheel of your car or even from the top of a mountain. You can have mobile radios that you can take wherever you go!

Amateur Radio is also the best overall way for preppers to keep in contact during an emergency.

This book is written with the needs of the practical amateur constantly in mind, it has earned universal acceptance not only by amateurs but by all segments of the technical radio world. It delivers all the guidance you need - from radio and electronics fundamentals needed to set up a transmitter to the newest equipment to revisions to the Federal Communications Commission rules and tests.