{"id":5921,"date":"2022-01-21T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/from-crystal-sets-to-sideband-a-great-book-about-homebrew-radio-by-frank-harris-k0iye-free\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:03","slug":"from-crystal-sets-to-sideband-a-great-book-about-homebrew-radio-by-frank-harris-k0iye-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/01\/21\/from-crystal-sets-to-sideband-a-great-book-about-homebrew-radio-by-frank-harris-k0iye-free\/","title":{"rendered":"“From Crystal Sets to Sideband” — A Great Book about Homebrew Radio by Frank Harris K0IYE (FREE!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I first came across the above picture of K0IYE’s inspirational, completely homebrew station many years ago in the pages of “World Radio” magazine. I have already linked to Frank’s book many times over the years, but it is so good that I regularly feel compelled to write about it again. Frank updates the book. Just check out the introduction to his website. Frank even has a Spanish language version of his book. All for free. Thank you Frank.
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The introduction to Frank’s web site: <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Over the last century amateur radio has evolved into numerous different<\/b><\/div>\n
hobbies. Some hams enjoy weekend contests in which they try to<\/b><\/div>\n
contact as many stations as possible. Others talk to as many of the<\/b><\/div>\n
world’s 341 call areas as possible and collect QSL cards to prove it. Other<\/b><\/div>\n
hams just like to ragchew with friends. Still others communicate over<\/b><\/div>\n
long distances at UHF frequencies using satellites, meteorites, aurora and<\/b><\/div>\n
other substitutes for a sunspot-charged ionosphere. Some hams provide<\/b><\/div>\n
communications for their communities during emergencies.<\/b><\/div>\n

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Many of us have returned to the early days of radio by building our own<\/b><\/div>\n
equipment from scratch. Most home builders start by building QRP (low<\/b><\/div>\n
power) transmitters. If this doesn’t satisfy your urge to build something,<\/b><\/div>\n
you can move on to build the entire station. That is what this website is about.<\/b><\/div>\n


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I first came across the above picture of K0IYE’s inspirational, completely homebrew station many years ago in the pages of “World Radio” magazine. I have already linked to Frank’s book many times over the years, but it is so good that I regularly feel compelled to write about it again. Frank updates the book. Just … Continue reading ““From Crystal Sets to Sideband” — A Great Book about Homebrew Radio by Frank Harris K0IYE (FREE!)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,108,263,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-crystal-radio","category-harris-frank","category-ssb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5922,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/5922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}