September 2002
Articles from the
September 2002 issue of CQ posted on our
website include:
The September issue of CQ features the CW results of last year's CQ World Wide DX Contest, starting with a fascinating story about the Voodoo DX Group's contest DXpedition to Burkina Faso in West Africa, where they operated as XT2DX. Next, we have the contest results themselves -- so you can see how well XT2DX did (pretty well) -- and how well you did if you entered the contest. As with the single sideband contest results in our August issue, we've moved some elements of our contest reporting to the CQ website, but we're still publishing the complete line scores in the magazine. Also in our September issue, the rules or this year's running of the world's most popular ham radio contest, the CQ World Wide. The single sideband weekend this year is October 26 and 27, followed by the CW weekend on November 23rd and 24th. We hope you'll join in.
September marks the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, so we're devoting some space in our September issue to look back -- not only at the past year, but further back as well, to the mid-1960s, before the World Trade Center was built, to ham radio's special connection with the place we now call "Ground Zero." The lessons of the past year for hams are reviewed in W2VU's Zero Bias editorial.
Continuing on, Washington Readout Editor Fred Maia, W5YI, begins a series of articles on "Things Every Ham Should Know;" Contributing Editor Gordon West, WB6NOA, reviews RadioShack's new HTX-420 two-band handheld, and Math's Notes editor Irwin Math, WA2NDM, takes a look at the versatile op-amp -- how these circuits work and how you can use them.
Public Service Editor Bob Josuweit, WA3PZO, looks at ham radio's involvement in searching for a kidnapped girl and providing vital information about hurricanes. Contributing Editor Dave Ingram, K4TWJ, covers some basic antenna theory in "How It Works," and Antennas Editor Arnie Coro, CO2KK, follows with a column on how -- and why -- to build a T-V-B, or terminated V-beam, antenna. K4TWJ returns with part two of his look at crystal sets in "World of Ideas," and "What's New" editor Karl Thurber, W8FX, looks at -- what else? -- what's new.
Beginner's Editor Peter O'Dell, WB2D, explores a ham radio operator's "sacred space" - no, not the shack, the workbench. VHF-Plus Editor Joe Lynch, N6CL, takes us back to 1975 to a "Meteor Storm Nobody Saw." Apparently, though, many people worked it without realizing it. DX Editor Carl Smith, N4AA, asks the perennial question, "Where's My Card?" while Contesting Editor John Dorr, K1AR, asks, "Are Computers Hurting Contesting?" On the topic of contests, don't forget the CQ /RTTY Journal World Wide RadioTeletype DX Contest, coming up on September 28 and 29. Finally, Propagation Editor Tomas Hood, NW7US, helps us open up the autumn aurora season.
On the news front, CQ has become "The Official Journal of 'The Human Race'."
"The Human Race" is a planned miniseries for educational television that will feature a worldwide road rally with a twist -- all transportation except across oceans -- must be provided by volunteer hams along the way. CQ will be reporting on progress in planning and producing the series. Click here for details.
Reminder: The summer issue of CQ VHF is out. It's available at ham dealers and by subscription. Articles include an introduction to AMSAT's latest planned satellite -- AMSAT-OSCAR-E; contest operating as a "rover;" how software defined radios work; how to take advantage of tropospheric ducting to work VHF DX, and much, much more.
Zero Bias
Lessons
Learned
From 9/11
COMING SOON Expanded results, 2001 CQ WW DX Contest / CW
What You've
Told Us
(Survey Results)
