Grammer G. Understanding Amateur Radio

First Edition. — Newington :The American Radio Relay League, 1963. — 319 p.The beginner in amateur radio faces such an accumulation of technology that he isn't to be blamed for feeling helpless before it. The ARRL family of publications aims to supply the amateur with up-to-date technical and operating information, but the quantity grows rapidly with the art. There is therefore a definite need for a book that selects those subjects which establish the groundwork for all phases of amateur radio, and which treats them in freer and more leisurely style than is possible in, for example, The Radio Amateur's Handbook; the Handbook necessarily becomes more concise in treatment and compact in construction as more and more material has to be included. Understanding Amateur Radio has been written to meet that need. "Selection" implies that there are things omitted as well as things included. The things that are omitted in this volume are the more-advanced phases; concepts and techniques that it is best to approach only after the fundamentals are well in hand. Here the accent is on helping you to an understanding of the basic ideas on which circuits and equipment are built.