ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

My original plan for this month’s column was to look at the state of the “maker” movement, both generally and within ham radio, as a result of the closing (and possible rebirth) of Make: magazine and the cancellation of this month’s scheduled World Maker Faire in New York City. (KH6WZ discusses this in his “Ham Notebook” column this month, as well.)

Then we got news of the passing of two major figures in ham radio technology over the past 50 years, along with the selection of the 2019 Newsline Young Ham of the Year (see separate items in “News Bytes”), and I thought that I needed to write about was what Newsline’s Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF (SK), used to refer to as the “changing of the guard.”