Hello World: A Life In Ham Radio

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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

• Hello World: A Life In Ham Radio available on December 27 2022 from Indigo for 38.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9781568982816 ξ2 registered December 27 2022
  
• ISBN bar code 9781568982816 ξ1 registered September 24 2015
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 978156898281
  

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 communicating with people from Greenland to occupied Japan. Once he made contact with a fellow ham operator, he exchanged postcards - known as QSLs cards - with them. For seven decades, Powell collected hundreds of these cards, documenting his fascinating career in amateur radio and providing a dazzling graphic inventory of people and places far flung. This book is both an introduction to the fascinating world of ham and a visual feast for anyone interested in the universal language of graphic design.

^ Danny Gregory, Paul Sahre (2003). Hello World: A Life in Ham Radio ISBN 9781568982816 (revised Nov 2015)
^ Hello World: A Life In Ham Radio Indigo. ISBN 9781568982816 (revised Dec 2022)