CQ Amateur Radio is a magazine for amateur radio

Amateur radio

Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...

 enthusiasts. The magazine has a worldwide readership base for its English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 edition. A Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 edition is published in Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 with some translation

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

s of articles from the English language edition and some original Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an content. Since its inception in 1945, CQ Communication, Inc. has published over thirty paperback books that address most major aspects of the amateur radio hobby, which are frequently promoted through the magazine.

CQ Amateur is published by CQ Communications, publishers of CQ VHF Magazine

CQ VHF Magazine

CQ VHF is a magazine that serves the ham radio operators whose operational and technical interests lie above 50 MHz.The magazine focuses on radio technology, products, and activities that exist on6 meters, 2 meters, 440 MHz and above...

magazine, WorldRadio

WorldRadio

WorldRadio was a monthly amateur radio enthusiast magazine published in the United States from July, 1971 to November, 2008. The magazine was published in English and drew its subscription base primarily from the United States of America and Canada, although it had subscribers around the world...

magazine, and Popular Communications

Popular Communications

Popular Communications is a magazine with content relating to the radio hobby, including scanners, shortwave radio, CB, amateur radio, AM and FM broadcast band listening, radio history, and vintage radio restoration...

magazine.

CQ Amateur Radio is not associated with the similarly named Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese magazine CQ ham radio

CQ ham radio

CQ ham radio is a monthly amateur radio enthusiast magazine published in Japan. The magazine is published in Japanese and draws its subscription base primarily from Japan...

.

Contest promotions

CQ Amateur Radio organizes, adjudicates, and publishes the results of several annual radio competitions

Contesting

Contesting is a competitive activity pursued by amateur radio operators. In a contest, an amateur radio station, which may be operated by an individual or a team, seeks to contact as many other amateur radio stations as possible in a given period of time and exchange information...

, including the CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest, the CQ World Wide WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide DX Contest, and the CQ World Wide VHF Contest. All of these contests allow participation by amateur radio operator

Amateur radio operator

An amateur radio operator is an individual who typically uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other similar individuals on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service. Amateur radio operators have been granted an amateur radio...

s in any country of the world.

See also

• Worked All Zones
  Worked All Zones
  Worked All Zones, or WAZ, is an amateur radio operating award given to those amateur radio operators who successfully complete two-way amateur radio communications with other amateur radio stations located in each of the 40 geographic zones of the world, as defined by the award sponsor, CQ Amateur...
  
  
• Friedman, Neil (N3DF), CQ "Small Format" Books, 1947-1984: An Annotated Bibliography, in The AWA Review
  The AWA Review
  The AWA Review is a series of annual softcover books of articles on the history of radio published by the Antique Wireless Association, a membership organization based in Bloomfield, New York, USA. Volume 1 was published in 1986 and Volume 24 was published in 2011...
  
  (Vol. 19, 2006).

External links

• CQ World Wide DX Contest
• CQ World Wide WPX Contest