CQ Amateur Radio

BOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS — FEMARA will hold the Northeast HamXposition at Boxboro and 2019 ARRL New England Section Convention from noon to 5 p.m., Friday, September 6; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, September 7; and 8 a.m. to noon, Sunday, September 8

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Climate Prediction Center has issued a revised forecast for the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, suggesting that it might be more active than originally predicted. NOAA says the El Niño pa

Dhruv Rebba, KC9ZJX, of Normal, Illinois, has been selected as the 2019 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. Dhruv, 15, is the son of Hari Rebba, VU2SPZ, and Shailaja Panyam. He is entering his sophomore year a

My original plan for this month’s column was to look at the state of the “maker” movement, both generally and within ham radio, as a result of the closing (and possible rebirth) of Make: magazine and the cancellation of this month’s scheduled World M

Thorvald “Skip” Tenney, W1NLB, became a Silent Key on August 4, after a period of declining health. In 1968, Tenney and Jim Fisk, W1DTY (SK), joined forces to publish Ham Radio magazine, the first magazine dedicated solely to state-of-the-art amateur

I have only been a ham for two years, I earned my first license in June 2017 as a basic amateur with honors in Canada, and upgraded to Advanced the following month and became known as VO1IDX. Just last month, I wrote all three FCC exams to achieve an

As our 75th anniversary approaches next year, we’ve been doing quite a bit of looking back over the past three-quarters of a century worth of CQ magazine. One of the most consistent things we’ve noticed is the extent to which — from the very first is

THERE is no point in making whether or not the radio amateur will work in the new part of the spectrum where wave-lengths are only a few centimeters long, and which has become generally known asthe microwave band. He requires only two things to try o

Introduced at the 2019 Dayton Hamvention ® and recently approved by the FCC for sale, the Yaesu FT3DR is the company’s latest addition to its line of analog and C4FM digital voice handhelds. Yaesu’s newest HT offers up to 5 watts of output and comes

WA2NDM’s May “Math’s Notes” column on super capacitors as power sources continues to generate reader comment. Irwin, I just read your article on super capacitors in the May 2019 issue of CQ magazine. I’d like to mention that I’ve been using these dev

This month we start with a project from Luc Decroos, ON7DQ. Two of Luc’s other projects were featured in my March 2019 CQ column. Luc’s new project is the KX3 Memory Commander, a small external 6-button controller for the Elecraft KX3 to send any of

Sergey Babakhin, EU1A, operating the 2019 CQ World Wide WPX SSB Contest (results, p. 14) from his home station in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus, with his contest call of EW5Z. Despite limited space in a high-rise apartment building, Sergey achie

In what has become an annual event, England’s Angel of the North Amateur Radio Club this year operated June’s “Museums on the Air” event from the Bowes Incline Railway Museum. The museum is located on an old tramway a few miles south of Gateshead at

Bob Hopkins, WB2UDC (“America’s Voice,” p. 10), is a frequent contributor to CQ, mostly sharing stories of the people he’s met and the places he’s been as a result of being a ham. A CW enthusiast, Bob is a retired professor of computer science and he