Hello,
> I started work on a hamradio handbook for Debian:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/hamradio-handbook/
Ian, this looks a very good idea!
I remember long time ago, in "the age of howtos", that there was the ham howto...
Maybe you could look for the newest version and use it as a help for your new and updated doc!
A quick search from my mobile showed this:
http://cs.mipt.ru/docs/comp/eng/os/linux/howto/howto_english/ham/ham-howto.html