Ham Radio's Technical Culture
Kristen Haring, Ham Radio's Technical Culture
The MIT Press | ISBN 0262083558 | PDF | 2006 | 238 pages | 2,4 MB
The MIT Press | ISBN 0262083558 | PDF | 2006 | 238 pages | 2,4 MB
Decades before the Internet, ham radio provided instantaneous, global, person-to-person communication. Hundreds of thousands of amateur radio operators–a predominantly male, middle- and upper-class group known as "hams"–built and operated two-way radios for recreation in mid twentieth century America. In Ham Radio's Technical Culture, Kristen Haring examines why so many men adopted the technical hobby of ham radio from the 1930s through 1970s and how the pastime helped them form identity and community.
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