{"id":3264,"date":"2009-11-19T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/an-amazing-radio-history-book-free\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:49:23","slug":"an-amazing-radio-history-book-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/an-amazing-radio-history-book-free\/","title":{"rendered":"An amazing radio history book &#8211; FREE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/synctorch.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 392px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/synctorch.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405690346618442338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Robert, WP4PQV, sent us some links to a treasure trove of U.S. Navy electronics publications that have been placed on-line. My initial perusal of the collection took me to History of Communications in the U.S. Navy by Capt. Howeth. Here is one gem from this amazing book: <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 0, 153);\"><\/p>\n<p>Emperor Tiberius ruled Rome from the island of Capri for 10 years, around 37 A.D., transmitting his orders by means of the heliograph.<\/span><a style=\"color: rgb(51, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/earlyradiohistory.us\/1963hw01.htm#1footnote\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 0, 153);\"> This indicates that the Romans, at this time, used some form of telegraphic code in the transmission of information. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is the link:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/earlyradiohistory.us\/1963hw.htm\">http:\/\/earlyradiohistory.us\/1963hw.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1946 Navy Manual &#8220;Introduction to Radio Equipment&#8221; (and links to other books) can be found here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/hnsa.org\/doc\/radio\/index.htm\">http:\/\/hnsa.org\/doc\/radio\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert, WP4PQV, sent us some links to a treasure trove of U.S. Navy electronics publications that have been placed on-line. My initial perusal of the collection took me to History of Communications in the U.S. Navy by Capt. Howeth. Here is one gem from this amazing book: Emperor Tiberius ruled Rome from the island of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/an-amazing-radio-history-book-free\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An amazing radio history book &#8211; FREE!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3266,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/3266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}