{"id":35589,"date":"2019-01-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35589"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:41:55","slug":"free-radio-e-books-for-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/free-radio-e-books-for-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Free radio e-books for download"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

There are a number of vintage radio and amateur radio related eBooks available for free download on the Gutenberg site<\/p>\n

Among them is the 1922 edition of\u00a0The Radio Amateur’s Handbook<\/strong>\u00a0by A. Frederick Collins.<\/p>\n

Jarno de Haan @PA3DMI tweeted this link that will display the books available:
\nhttp:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/search\/?query=radio<\/a><\/p>\n

A. Frederick Collins
\nhttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archie_Frederick_Collins<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate ARC) There are a number of vintage radio and amateur radio related eBooks available for free download on the Gutenberg site Among them is the 1922 edition of\u00a0The Radio Amateur’s Handbook\u00a0by A. Frederick Collins. Jarno de Haan @PA3DMI tweeted this link that will display the books available: http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/search\/?query=radio A. Frederick Collins https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archie_Frederick_Collins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[251,3],"tags":[4090,1345,580],"class_list":["post-35589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","tag-books","tag-ebooks","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9g1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5717,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/history-of-wwv-and-the-nist-time-stations\/","url_meta":{"origin":35589,"position":0},"title":"History of WWV and the NIST Time Stations","author":"Thomas","date":"February 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many readers know that I'm a bit of a WWV geek, so you can imagine how happy I was when my buddy, Mike, and the Southgate ARC made me aware of this 152 page history of the NIST time station family. 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