CQ Amateur Radio

The Broad View

appy New Year! I always find our January issue to be full of possibilities, just like the new year. It’s one of the few issues on our calendar that doesn’t either have a special theme or devote lots of pages to major contest results. We love our specials and our contest issues, of course, but this one gives us the opportunity, at least once a year, to explore the wide breadth of amateur radio in a single issue. We can’t cover every aspect of the hobby in one issue, of course, but we can (and do) offer up a great

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