Hello World: a Life in Ham Radio

Name: Hello World: a Life in Ham Radio
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ISBN: 9781568982816

ISBN-10: 156898281X

ISBN-13: 9781568982816

Edition: 2003

Authors: Danny Gregory, Paul Sahre

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To an outsider, the world of ham radio is one of basement transmitters, clunky microphones, Morse code, and crackly, possibly clandestine, worldwide communications, a world both mysterious and geeky. But the real story is a lot more interesting: indeed, there are more than two million operators worldwide, including people like Walter Cronkite and Priscilla Presley. Gandhi had a ham radio, as do Marlon Brando and Juan Carlos, king of Spain. Hello World takes us on a seventy-year odyssey through the world of ham radio. From 1927 until his death in 2001, operator Jerry Powell transmitted radio signals from his bedroom in Hackensack, New Jersey, touring the world s most remote locations and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 3/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.25" wide x 7.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English