This issue, at first glance, doesn’t seem to have an overarching theme. We’ve got contest results, reports from Hamvention and the HamSCI workshop, Hall of Fame inductions, an island DXpedition, and more. But if you look a little bit under the surface, you’ll see that there actually is an overarching theme, which is the people we get to meet through ham radio and with whom we share our radio adventures. This was brought home to me by the recent loss of three well-known hams, two of whom were former members of the CQ “family” (see News Bytes on the next page). In truth, we’re all part of a big ham radio family, bound not by blood but by our common interest in what columnist Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR, refers to as…
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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2023