ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

I’m writing this while sitting in an airport boarding “lounge,” waiting for a flight that’s been delayed by two hours due to maintenance working on “an issue in the flight control deck” (and the plane isn’t even a 737 Max!). The reason I’m mentioning this is because the airline on which I’m (hopefully) flying bills itself as the home of the “friendly skies.” And having this extra time got me to thinking about ham radio as the home of the “friendly skywaves.”

Sure, there are those among us who don’t meet that qualification, and sometimes