The Fast Track to Getting Started in Ham Radio

by Michael Burnette, AF7KB

Overview

If you've been thinking about getting into amateur radio, here's the information you've probably been looking for.

In this lively guide, award-winning ham radio author Michael Burnette, amateur radio call sign AF7KB, covers:

What is amateur radio?

Why do amateur radio operators participate in the hobby?

How much does it cost?

What do hams do?

Mobile amateur radio communications

Global amateur radio communications

Radio contests

Amateur television

Amateur radio satellite communications

Outdoor recreation communications

Amateur radio public service

Amateur radio emergency communications

Field Operations

Youth Activities

How to Get your Ham License

License exam topics

How to study for the exam

Finding an exam testing session

Finding the ham radio community

He even covers buying your first radio.

Illustrated with pictures of equipment and hams in action.

Michael Burnette is the author of the popular Fast Track to Your Ham License courses (available in paperback, e-book, and audio editions) and is a frequent presenter at major ham conventions.

You'll get a thorough introduction to the fun and useful world of amateur radio.

Note: This is not an amateur radio license manual. It is an introduction to the hobby and service that is amateur radio.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163289943
Publisher:	Michael Burnette, AF7KB
Publication date:	07/24/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Michael Burnette, AF7KB, started playing with radios at age 8 when he found the plans for a crystal radio set in a comic book and wasted a half roll of toilet paper to get the cardboard tube for a coil form. That radio failed as a practical appliance when it proved to only receive high-power stations that were less than one city block away.

This promising beginning blossomed into an equally auspicious 25 year career annoying the public as a commercial broadcaster where he did a bit of everything from being a DJ to serving as a vice president and general manager with Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS/Infinity.)

By 1989 he owned his own stations in Bend, Oregon, which afforded him abundant opportunities to repair those stations, often in the middle of the night in a snowstorm.

In 1992, Burnette left the radio business behind, despite absolutely no clamor for him to stay, and took to traveling the world designing and delivering experiential learning seminars on leadership, management, communications, and building relationships.

He has trained people across the US and in Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Mexico, Finland, Greece, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Russia. In addition to his public and corporate trainings, he has been a National Ski Patroller, a Certified Professional Ski Instructor, a Certified In-Line Skating Instructor, a big-rig driving instructor, and a Certified Firewalk Instructor. (Yes, he can teach you how to walk on fire. Really.)

These days he makes his home in the Seattle, WA area with his wife, Kerry (KG7NVJ) and a singularly unproductive cat.

He is still playing with radios.