📚 Radio

Broadcasting’s first medium: the transmitters, the programming, and the voices that defined whole evenings.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject radio in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The ARRL handbook for the radio amateur	American Radio Relay League (ARRL)	1926	46
	Rules and regulations	United States. Federal Communications Commission.	1974	42
	The ARRL Antenna Book	American Radio Relay League (ARRL)	1955	20
	The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone	Richard Bonner	1915	16
	My inventions	Nikola Tesla	1977	16
	Software Defined Radio	Wally H. W. Tuttlebee	2002	15
	Drake's radio cyclopedia	Harold P. Manly	1908	14
	The radio amateur's hand book	Archie Frederick Collins	1922	14
	Ham radio for dummies	H. Ward Silver	2004	13
	The radio station	Michael C. Keith	1986	12
	The radio handbook	Carole Fleming	2002	12
	Electronic communication	Robert L. Shrader	1959	11
	Vejen til sendetilladelsen	Unknown author	1951	10
	Beyond powerful radio	Valerie Geller	2011	10
	Electronics for the beginner	J. A. Stanley	1960	8
	Radio handbook	William Ittner Orr	1970	8
	Practical antenna handbook	Joseph J. Carr	1989	8
	Radio production	Robert McLeish	2012	7
	How Radio Signals Work	Jim Sinclair	1997	6
	Basic radio	Marvin Tepper	1961	5
	VLF radio engineering	Arthur D. Watt	1967	5
	Radios	Philip Collins	1987	5
	Secrets of RF circuit design	Joseph J. Carr	1991	5
	The scattering of electromagnetic waves from rough surfaces	Petr Beckmann	1963	4
	Communication electronics	Louis E. Frenzel	1989	4
	Shortwave Receivers Past & Present	Fred Osterman	1991	4
	The design of CMOS radio-frequency integrated circuits	Lee, Thomas H.	1998	4
	Software defined radio	Markus Dillinger	2003	4
	Philippine and international radio laws and regulations (with explanations)	Pablo R. Payumo	1979	3
	Ham Radio Anthology	Ham Radio Magazine	2003	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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