{"id":247,"date":"2014-04-19T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamradiobooks.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2017-02-05T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:00:05","slug":"open-letter-readers-want-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/ham-radio-books\/open-letter-readers-want-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Readers &#8211; What Ham Radio Books do you Want Reviewed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-274\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RadioBooksGeneric.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RadioBooksGeneric-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ham Radio Books\" width=\"181\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Which ham radio books would you like to see reviewed?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hi Readers,<\/p>\n<p>When I started getting into amateur radio, it seemed like there were a *lot* of ham radio books\u00a0that I needed to be reading. It didn&#8217;t take long for me to realize that there aren&#8217;t really that many, and definitely not many new ones, aside from yearly revisions of various handbooks. In fact, after authoring my third book with a ham radio focus, I am probably one of the more prolific authors in this area.<\/p>\n<p>However, new books come out occasionally, and while I&#8217;m always interested in learning more, I don&#8217;t always purchase or otherwise get a chance to read them. But I will do that for you! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Before I ask, I guess it&#8217;s worth revisiting some good places to purchase amateur radio communication-focused books. You have multiple options, and maybe even a local &#8220;brick annd mortar&#8221; store that will let you look at\u00a0a book before purchasing, especially Ham Radio Outlet, which has several stores across the country.<\/p>\n<h2>Recommended\u00a0Amateur Radio Book Sellers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ARRL&#8217;s web site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/shop\/What-s-New\">http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/shop\/What-s-New<\/a>. This is a great place to browse and learn more about each book.<\/li>\n<li>Ham Radio Outlet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamradio.com\/search2.cfm?sitem=Books\">http:\/\/www.hamradio.com\/search2.cfm?sitem=Books<\/a>. Unfortunately, their site isn&#8217;t the best way to browse\u00a0many books at once\u00a0(no book pictures until you click on each link), as compared to ARRL&#8217;s site. That said, their customer service is excellent and I&#8217;ve purchased many items from them\u00a0&#8211; they&#8217;re great folks!<\/li>\n<li>AES (Amateur Electronic Supply) has a great store here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aesham.com\/books\">http:\/\/www.aesham.com\/books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And of course, there&#8217;s Amazon.com, and you can see some of my reviewed and recommended books in the Bookstore page (see the &#8220;<strong>Bookstore<\/strong>&#8221; link at the top of\u00a0 this web page).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What Ham Radio Books do You Want to Learn More About?<\/h2>\n<p>In other words, what book(s) do you think would be useful for me to review on this site? I value your input, so please let me know! For example, are you interested in getting a better idea what&#8217;s in the ARRL Repeater Directory (aside from&#8230; frequencies and tones)? How about a book on low power communications? Do you have a preference?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there&#8217;s always the option to simply write another book. I just finished the sequel to &#8216;The Road Home&#8221;, which is titled &#8220;<a title=\"The Day After\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0983505322\">The Day After<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s another radio-focused adventure, with non-fiction endnotes. But that&#8217;s fiction, and I&#8217;m not sure how often people who come to a site like this are actually interested in fiction, versus the down and dirty reference material that comprises the overwhelming majority of amateur radio literature.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason I couldn&#8217;t write another non-fiction book. If you&#8217;ve seen my book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0983505314\">Personal Emergency Communications<\/a>&#8220;, then you&#8217;ll have a good idea of the level of depth I prefer. I&#8217;m not an electrical engineer don&#8217;t feel compelled to do a lot more studying in that area at the moment. However I do have a passion for providing information that less technical readers can learn from, even if the topic is somewhat technical. Is there a topic you think deserves a book?\u00a0I&#8217;d love your feedback there too.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Andrew, AB8L<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Readers, When I started getting into amateur radio, it seemed like there were a *lot* of ham radio books\u00a0that I needed to be reading. It didn&#8217;t take long for me to realize that there aren&#8217;t really that many, and definitely not many new ones, aside from yearly revisions of various handbooks. In fact, after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/ham-radio-books\/open-letter-readers-want-reviewed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Letter to Readers &#8211; What Ham Radio Books do you Want Reviewed?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","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\/247","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andrewbaze.com\/wparchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}