CQ Amateur Radio (also known simply as CQ or CQ magazine , and formerly as CQ: The Radio Amateur's Journal ) is a dormant magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts first published in 1945. 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" .
8-467: Wayne Sanger Green II (September 3, 1922 – September 13, 2013) was an American publisher, writer, and consultant. Green was editor of CQ magazine before he went on to found 73 , 80 Micro , Byte , CD Review , Cold Fusion , Kilobaud Microcomputing , RUN , InCider , and Pico , as well as publishing books and running Instant Software . In his editorial in the inaugural issue of 80 Microcomputing he said, "The first magazine I published
16-445: A website with content from his online bookstore. This biography of an American publisher is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . CQ Amateur Radio CQ Amateur Radio previously organized, adjudicated, and publishes the results of several annual radio competitions : All of these contests allow participation by amateur radio operators in any country of the world. While CQ has sponsored these contests,
24-584: The Amateur Radio Service with the callsign W2NSD, he was involved in a number of controversies and disputes in the Ham Radio world, notably with the ARRL and CQ magazines. Such controversies also occurred in the computer world; an advertisement for 80 Micro began "You may love Wayne Green ... you may hate him ... but you have to admit he has vision". It promised that the magazine would "tell you
32-548: The WPX and the "USA Counties" awards. In December 2023, Moseson had communicated to some subscribers via e-mail that publication of the magazine had been suspended. The last issue published was October 2023 in digital format on Zinio. Since then, digital subscribers were issued partial refunds for the balance of their subscriptions. CQ magazine had been seeking funding to continue operations. The magazine’s publisher, Richard A. Ross, K2MGA passed away on April 27, 2024. Ross had been
40-535: The administration of these contests is now done via independent contest committees under the auspices of the World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF). WWROF administers the infrastructure for contest log submission, log checking, and performs other services in support of the contests. 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
48-621: The truth" because "Wayne Green has never been one to mince words", adding "of course, 80 Microcomputing has the editorial fireworks from Wayne that the industry has come to expect". In his editorial in the inaugural issue of 80 Microcomputing, he said, "My outspokenness aggravates a lot of people, but...if I don't kick ass...I don't get results." He used the backronym "Never Say Die" for the NSD in his amateur callsign. As of 2011 he lived in his wife's farmhouse in Hancock, New Hampshire and maintained
56-699: Was a need for a magazine aimed at beginners in computing, I started Kilobaud Microcomputing in January 1977." In the early 1980s, he assisted in the creation of the Brazilian microcomputing magazine, Micro Sistemas (in Portuguese) . He sold five of his magazines to CW Communications in 1983, and his publishing company Wayne Green, Inc. subsequently merged with them. Licensed by the Federal Communications Commission in
64-407: Was in 1952 about amateur radio Teletype. Later I became editor of CQ , a ham radio magazine. I started my own magazine for hams in 1960, that was 73 magazine. 73 is now the world's largest ham publication, with subscribers in over 200 countries. When MITS put the first microcomputer kit on the market in 1975 I organized and did most of the work to get Byte magazine started. When I felt there
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