Ham Radio License Manual with CD Author: Amazon Prime | Language: English | ISBN:
0872590976 | Format: EPUB
Ham Radio License Manual with CD Description
The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual is the most popular introduction into the world of Amateur Radio.
Discover the excitement of ham radio. The Amateur Radio Service offers a unique mix of public service, technology and experimenting with electronics–all with an emphasis on fun. Some hams use their skills to provide communications during emergencies and disasters when all else fails. Others enjoy talking to people across the country and around the globe, participating in local contests and building experiments. The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual will guide you as you get started in the hobby–as you select your equipment, set-up your first station and make your first contact.
Use this book to study for your first license exam-you’ll be on the air in no time! Every page presents information you will need to pass the exam and become an effective operator. You'll cover small sections at a time:
Welcome to Amateur Radio
Radio and Electronics Fundamentals
Operating Station Equipment
Communicating with Other Hams
Licensing Regulations
Operating Regulations
Radio Safety
At the end of the book, you'll find the entire Technician Question Pool--so you can be sure you're ready at exam time. You'll turn to it again and again as you are getting started!
--This text refers to the
Kindle Edition
edition.
- Series: Arrl Ham Radio License Manual
- Paperback
- Publisher: Amer Radio Relay League; 2nd Edition edition (November 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0872590976
- ISBN-13: 978-0872590977
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.5 x 11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I had been wanting to get in to Ham Radio for a long time. A few years ago I took the leap and picked up the prior edition of this book, but I was taking classes again and ended up putting it on the back burner again for awhile. This recent July I picked up my book again with the intention of learning only to find that my volume was no longer current as of July 1st. So I tracked down a copy and went to work.
The book did a fairly efficient and straightforward job of presenting the information and properly cross-referencing between the pages and the question pool. Unlike in the prior version, the exact point in the text where a question in the question pool will reference it is now marked with the relevant question number. The previous book ended each segment with the questions you needed to study, and the question pool did list the relevant page for the question, but this edition goes a step forward by labeling the exact point in the text where that question is answered. This is useful when you are reviewing the questions for a section and miss one. Instead of rereading large chunks of a segment or just trying to memorize the answer without the facts behind it, you can now easily find and read that specific part of the section.
There were a few instances worth noting however in which the question and its answer were not in the text. The question pool will still refer you to a page for such questions but look all you want there is no section of text that details the answer. This is rare and most questions and answers are fleshed out, but there's a few occasions over the course of the book where this simply wasn't the case unfortunately.
The books organization works out pretty well with each chapter going in a sensible order and the content organized by subject.
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