Ham Radio: The Ultimate Ham Radio Quickstart Guide - From Beginner to Expert (Ham Radio, Survival, Communication)

This book is both for beginners and amateur radio enthusiasts. I love how the author discussed about the most common concepts within ham radio, and why they are important. Also, I love how the author gave some applications using real world ham radio scenarios. This book is very straightforward. It was written in a way that readers would find it easier to understand. You can look for more in depth information online or offline and you can also take a leap using the information provided in this book and learn as you go. It's completely up to you. This book is a great quick start guide for people who are interested in ham radio.

The information is excellent. However, the book is sorely in need of editing. There are many mistakes in spelling and sentence structure that are very obvious to the reader.

Looking for information to get started. The Author doesn't speak over your head and goes into a lot of subject matter. I was able to follow it without feeling lost. Answered a lot of my questions.I would recommend as a start here manual. Just what I was looking for.

The author really needed an editor. I am not sure that English is Mr. Campbell's native language; that would not have been a problem with a proper editor to refine the language. I don't know enough about ham radio to know whether his advice is sound; to some extent the information gets lost in the poor writing.

It would be more readable if the author had gone to school and taken an English class. The book is replete with sentence fragments that go no where and lose their intended meaning, or if you are lucky you can figure out what he was trying to say. Many times he uses an incorrect word in the sentence. Many of the mistakes could have been caught and some even corrected by MS Word. The content is sorely lacking to substantiate the claim of a "Quick Start." The syntax reminds me of a document written in a foreign language and then computer translated. For some unknown reason the author varies the type size and spacing which is normally used for emphasis or quotes, etc. The table in the back of the book lists abbreviations, but it was not sized properly and the right most column is missing some of the words explaining the abbreviation. Instead of reformatting the long list of abbreviations to fit the page, the author fails to sequence the column alphabetically by page but column one continues down the left side for several pages, and then he starts column two back at the beginning and it streams in that same position page after page. Not only is it difficult to describe, but it is difficult to follow the alphabet over four separate pages. There are also several pages with nothing on them. Wasted. This book will not enlighten you in the least. Skip it. Get a real book.

Downloaded this book as my interest in amateur radio has increased. It's a quick read & gives a little bit of info to whet your appetite.Ordered the ARRL Technician level study guide to continue with my interest in becoming a "ham".Thanks!

5 stars for this book! I learned so much about ham radios. Morse codes caught my attention because i have heard about this way back in college.Its amazing that people can communicate through beeps. If you want to know more about ham radios, this is a good reference.

I like reading educational books and this book did not disappoint me. I am really not familiar with the ham radio and this book gave me the all the information I need to know. From the origin of the ham radio and how it becomes a factor in winning the wars before. This book made me realize how far the technology has evolve.

This book was written by someone who has English as a second or third language. Full of grammatical errors. Incorrect info like saying Ham started in the late 18th century which would put it in the 1700’s. Um no, I don’t think we had radio then to my knowledge. Save your money. I asked for and got a refund.

Yet another Amazon publication that managed to miss the proof reading stage! Plenty of spelling mistakes and sentences wandering off subject. Was this a translation from a foreign language? So annoying for the reader. I spent more time proof reading it myself than I did enjoying the content!

Very good informative book.

Very informative

It is strange--the name of the author suggests someone who would speak fluent English, but it is as though the book was written in another language and put through Google Translate into English. I am a bit disappointed. The first part of the book goes into the usual content about how amateur radio is such a wonderful and inclusive hobby. Then there is a huge, unclearly explained part about Q codes and examples of making contact and chatting. Then briefly touches on Morse Code. And then about obtaining a set; and so on. Overall, this is not the book I was expecting. It is an ok introduction, but not as useful as I had hoped.