{"id":196,"date":"2011-10-30T14:56:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamradiobooks.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-10-30T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T21:56:12","slug":"low-profile-amateur-radio-save-yourself-a-ton-of-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/ham-radio-books\/low-profile-amateur-radio-save-yourself-a-ton-of-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Profile Amateur Radio &#8211; Save Yourself a Ton of Effort!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Low-Profile-Amateur-Radio-book-medium.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198\" title=\"Low Profile Amateur Radio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Low-Profile-Amateur-Radio-book-medium.png\" alt=\"Low Profile Amateur Radio\" width=\"189\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low Profile Amateur Radio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is one of the best books I&#8217;ve read on ham radio, because it has saved me the most time and helped me understand the most, compared to other books in my ham radio library: <a title=\"Low Profile Amateur Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0872599744\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwpreparedb-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0872599744\" target=\"_blank\">Low Profile Amateur Radio: Operating a Ham Station from Almost Anywhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can say honestly that if I had paid more attention to this book early on, I would have saved many hours of sweat and frustration. It\u2019s full of simple antenna concepts that work well in emergency-type situations because they are often small, portable, and can easily be temporarily rigged. But at the same time, these same antennas would do very well in a permanent installation.\u00a0 I recommend this book to anyone learning about antennas, especially if you want to save a ton of time and effort!<\/p>\n<p>As opposed to some of the engineering-heavy amateur radio tomes available, I found this book to be lighthearted, easy-to-understand, and suitable for many beginners.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter topics include: Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions, Low-Profile HF Antennas, Disguised Antennas, Indoor Antennas, Operating Modes and Tips, Interference, Antenna Tuners, Transmitter Output Power, Low-Profile VHF\/UHF Antennas, and Mobile Operating<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pay attention to this guy\u2019s recommendations. He knows what he\u2019s talking about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(4\/19\/2014) I have sad news. It appears this book is out of print. While it&#8217;s still available on Amazon.com, my last searches show that it&#8217;s prohibitively expensive. Maybe this is where I need to think about focusing for my next book! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Strong recommendation: If you see this book for sale at an amateur radio convention or flea market, snatch it up!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the best books I&#8217;ve read on ham radio, because it has saved me the most time and helped me understand the most, compared to other books in my ham radio library: Low Profile Amateur Radio: Operating a Ham Station from Almost Anywhere. I can say honestly that if I had paid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/ham-radio-books\/low-profile-amateur-radio-save-yourself-a-ton-of-effort\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Low Profile Amateur Radio &#8211; Save Yourself a Ton of Effort!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}