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Five pieces that take you from a wave in the air to a licence of your own.

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Radio is old enough to feel like furniture and strange enough to still surprise people who use it every day. These five pieces are the shortest path through it: what a radio signal is, where to find one at night, the words people use about it, how it began, and how to put your own voice on the air legally.

Read them in order, or start wherever the title pulls you.

In this collection

  1. GuideAM and FM, in one picture
  2. Band guideThe 49-metre band
  3. GlossaryGlossary
  4. HistoryThe first voices on the air
  5. PathwayGet your amateur radio licence