Amateur Radio Operating Manual

"Chapter 1: The Amateur Service; Amateur radio is an officially recognized radio service, bound and protected by both national and international legislation. It also has its own codes of operating practice and procedures which set it apart from other radio services. Although many of these are unofficial (though nevertheless established as good practice), many others are recommended and standardized by national and international societies of radio amateurs. In this first chapter a brief look is talen at this format background to amateur radio as it affects operating matters, in order to give some perspective to the more detailed practical discussions in later chapter...." [from book]