CQ Amateur Radio

“Return With Us Now…”

Like all good technical publications, CQ does well in keeping readers informed on the latest new amateur radio equipment and technology, software programs, operating modes, and the like. In these pages you’ll also find news, regulatory info, contest results, awards updates, and other contemporary developments. But it seems appropriate here, in the summer of 2019, to take a temporary vacation-time leave of the “here and now” and reflect on some of the “blasts from the past” because, well, this year calls to mind some pretty significant milestones.

Like it Was Yesterday

Using the cover date of this magazine as a benchmark, exactly 50 years ago, the making its harrowing descent to the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility. And then — planet-wide jubilation with the message, “Tranquility Base here, the has landed.”

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