For other uses of "CQ", see CQ (disambiguation). Not to be confused with CQ ham radio.
CQ Amateur Radio
August 2010 Cover
EditorRichard Moseson, W2VU
CategoriesAmateur radio
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation60,000 (2012)[1]
PublisherCQ Communications, Inc.
First issueJanuary 1945
CountryUSA
Based inHicksville, New York
LanguageEnglish
Websitecq-amateur-radio.com
ISSN0007-893X
OCLC310821852

CQ Amateur Radio (also known simply as CQ or CQ magazine, and formerly as CQ: The Radio Amateur's Journal) is a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts first published in 1945.[2] The English language edition is read worldwide; Spanish language edition is published in Spain, with some translations of articles from the English language edition, and some original European content. The magazine was also published in France with partial translation of the original edition between 1995–2000 (ISSN 1267-2750). Published by CQ Communications, the title is based on the radio call "CQ".[3]

Contests and awards

CQ Amateur Radio organizes, adjudicates, and publishes the results of several annual radio competitions, including the

  • CQ World Wide 160 m Contest
  • CQ World Wide WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY Contest
  • CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide DX Contest
  • CQ World Wide VHF Contest.

All of these contests allow participation by amateur radio operators in any country of the world.[4]

CQ Amateur Radio is also associated with a number of amateur radio awards, of which the best known is Worked All Zones. Others offered are the WPX and the "USA Counties" awards.[5][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brewer, Robert Lee (4 August 2011). 2012 Writer's Market. Penguin Publishing Group. p. 913 ff. ISBN 978-1-59963-240-7.
  2. ↑ Silver, H. Ward (2 March 2018). Ham Radio for Dummies. Wiley. p. 50 ff. ISBN 978-1-119-45482-3 – via Google books.
  3. ↑ Mosenson, Rich (January 2015). "Seventy Years of Amateur Radio and CQ, Part I: 1945-1980". CQ Amateur Radio. 71 (1–2): 10–14.
  4. 1 2 Wilson, Mark J.; et al., eds. (2007). The ARRL Operating Manual for Radio Amateurs. Newington, CT: American Radio Relay League. p. 12 ff. ISBN 978-0-87259-109-7.
  5. ↑ Gregory, Danny; Sahre, Paul (March 2003). Hello World: A life in ham radio. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 67 ff. ISBN 978-1-56898-281-6.

Further reading

  • Friedman, Neil (2006). "CQ 'small format' amateur radio books, 1947-1984: An annotated bibliography". The AWA Review. Vol. 19.
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