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Stealth Amateur Radio is your

ticket to enjoying amateur
radio from apartments, condos,
deed-restricted neighborhoods,
or other "radio unfriendly"
environments.
Your ability to enjoy amateur radio is under
constant attack—but with Stealth Amateur Radio
you can fight back, get on the air, and make plenty
of stateside and DX contacts...right under
everyone's noses! Only you will know how much
fun you're having!

From: Kirk A. Kleinschmidt, NT0Z

RE: A "cloaking device" for your shack...

Dear Fellow Ham,

If your enjoyment of amateur radio is under siege from intrusive homeowner's

associations, draconian deed restrictions or unfair CC&Rs (covenants, conditions
and restrictions) — or if you live in an apartment or condo and want to get on the
air without attracting unwanted attention — Stealth Amateur Radio will show you
exactly how to:

• Build and install dozens of invisible, effective antennas, indoors and out.

• Use antenna tuners, autocouplers and open-wire feed lines to make your hidden
antenna work well on more than one band.

• Set up an effective station that nobody outside your household will ever know
about.

• Successfully operate a low-power (QRP) station — and understand why high

power is unnecessary — even with stealthy antennas.

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• Install and operate a mobile station — the right way! — to maximize

performance while getting away from "radio unfriendly" locations.

• Operate portable stations from campgrounds, hotels, motels, parks, picnic

areas or other "away from home" locations.

• Handle interference from your station (to nearby consumer electronics

devices) and to your stealthy radio station.

• Enjoy operating from just about anywhere!

About the Author

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I was first licensed in 1977 at age 15 (WD0BDA). I spent most of my early years
chasing states and DXCC Entities on CW, with a little SSB thrown in for good
measure. In 1970s central Minnesota, stealth operation wasn't necessary —
although I'm sure my parents would have preferred something a bit more
reserved than my backyard maze of antennas and feed lines.

My freshman year in college coincided with a solar cycle peak and marked the
beginning of my career in Stealth Amateur Radio. Many of the antennas and
stations I used during those years are detailed in the book. Some will remain
forever unmentioned!

In 1988, after six years of college, eight years in broadcasting and countless
stealthy ham stations and QTHs, I moved to Newington, Connecticut, to work at
ARRL HQ. Even in ham radio mecca, until I found a ham landlord (the best
kind!) I had to operate on the sly. After a brief stint as an assistant technical
editor (where I was editor for the 1990 ARRL Handbook, pictured below) I took a
position as QST's assistant managing editor (and de facto staff photographer),
where I stayed until 1994, when I moved back to the woods and water of
Minnesota.

From the mid-90s through 2005 — the period in which I actually wrote the first
edition of Stealth Amateur Radio — I once again enjoyed small-town living and its
freedom from "radio unfriendly" ordinances, deed restrictions, neighborhood
associations and the like. Life sometimes imitates art, however, and in 2005 I
found myself in a bigger Minnesota city living in a condo that allows no
external antennas of any kind, and has a detail oriented townhouse
association that runs a very tight ship.

After a false start with an unruly rain gutter antenna, I grabbed a copy of my
own book, re-read it, and installed a horizontal loop in my third-floor attic and
fed it through an autocoupler placed at the antenna's feed point. That antenna —
a perennial favorite — is no doubt helped by the fact that my condo happens to
be within 20 feet of the highest elevation in the county. My QRP signal is heard in
every state and on all continents, and in the 150+ pages of Stealth Amateur
Radio I show you how to do the same.

Over the years I've written dozens of magazine features and hundreds of
columns on one ham radio topic or another. Since 1989 I've written a ham
radio column every month in Popular Communications. In 2010 I started writing
features and columns for Monitoring Times (I got my start with MT by
writing features for the company's Satellite Times in the '90s). A few years back,
Ward Silver, N0AX, wrote Ham Radio for Dummies for Wiley Publishers and
generously asked me to be the book's technical editor. Between Ward's follow-on
books and those of several other Wiley authors, I now have six "Dummies" titles
as technical editor under my belt! A few of the publication are shown below.

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I contributed to these publications as a writer, editor or technical editor, but the copyrights of the books and
magazines pictured above are owned by their respective companies.

My point is — whether by choice or circumstance — I have been using all of the

techniques, tips and tricks I reveal in Stealth Amateur Radio for most of my 34
years as a ham. It's not just regurgitated theory, it's seat-of-the-pants
practicality. Like you, I have to be stealthy or I can't get on the air!

My friend Jock puts it this way:

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The Rhombic Rangers want you!

I've always had a weakness for stories in which the forces of power and
might get their comeuppance from those who are smarter and craftier.
I cheer for the prisoners of war who build an escape tunnel under the
nose of the commandant, and I root for the freedom fighters who slip in
behind enemy lines. It's adventure of the best sort.

So I'd like to invite you on an adventure of your own — into the

intriguing world of Stealth Amateur Radio. Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z, a
respected ham radio writer and former QST editor, is ready to guide
you. A ham for more than three decades and a stealth operator for
much of that time, Kirk has written a fascinating and useful volume
that shows how to get the upper hand in the most trying
circumstances. He's been there, done that, and has the QSL cards to
prove it.

There may be forces of oppression surrounding you — antenna

restriction laws, for example — but you can triumph through stealth
and guile. Is there a dipole in that rain gutter? A vertical antenna
hidden in that flagpole? A delta loop strung up in the trees? Only you
know for sure.

If you believe that you need a few furlongs of aluminum sticking into
the sky and a wad of cash to experience the best that amateur radio
has to offer, I have a pleasant surprise for you: it's not so. There are
many hams who have worked the world with shockingly modest
stations. They'll tell you flat out that more bucks out of pocket do not
equal more enjoyment.

What's more, Stealth Amateur Radio is fun . . . lots of fun. So it's no

surprise that many hams voluntarily "go stealth" simply because they
prefer it. It's enjoyable, challenging, and low cost. What's not to like?

If you've been looking for more fun, a challenge, or just to get on the
air inexpensively, strike a blow for freedom: hang a rhombic or loop in
the trees, dangle a longwire by the downspout, clamp a whip to the
balcony rail. A world of adventure awaits you.

—Jock Elliott, KB2GOM

One of my nicknames during the years I spent at ARRL HQ was "the consumer
from hell." I was — and still am — focused on quality, value and fairness.
When friends and family members need to find the best price or the best
warranty on important purchases, they know I'll ferret out the best deal. And
when a company is pulling a fast one and not delivering as promised, they know
I'll get on the phone and give 'em hell.

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I wouldn't expect anything less for my own products. I want only happy
customers, and I have a long history and my good reputation as a ham radio
journalist to back that up.

That's why — even though the PDF eBook version of Stealth Amateur
Radio is only $7 — it comes with an unconditional, 30-day money-back
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expected, just send me a quick e-mail (nt0z@stealthamateur.com) and I'll refund
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Whatever you do, don't wait. This "stealthy" price won't be around
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Good luck, and stay stealthy!

73,

Kirk A. Kleinschmidt, NT0Z

P.S. The amazon.com Kindle edition of Stealth Amateur Radio will soon be
available. Because it contains a lot of photos and figures, the book needs to be
converted to a more Kindle-friendly format prior to uploading. That work is
underway.

P.P.S. If you have questions, or if you have any difficulties with your purchase,
feel free to drop me an e-mail at nt0z@stealthamateur.com.

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