Issue 6 of HackSpace magazine mentions amateur radio and provides links to the RSGB and ARRL
Pages 56-61 looks at radios from crystal sets to RTL SDR dongles. The article covers turning your Raspberry Pi into a radio transmitter and provides a design for a low pass filter to reduce the harmonics that can be generated.
They say "You may be happy to play with a simple regenerative receiver or a cheap RTL software-defined receiver but, if your interest goes further, the field of amateur radio is a logical next step."