CQ Amateur Radio

ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

Pull up a chair, get your coffee out of the microwave and let’s have a little (very little?) talk about very little radio waves … better known as microwaves. Is any component of your ham station set up to transmit and/or receive above 1 GHz? If so, are you using that capability? If not (to any of the above), why not?

Outside the ham bands, virtually all of us use microwave radios for communication every day. They keep us in touch with family and friends, bring us the latest news and entertainment and tell us how to make our way to unfamiliar places. You might even be using yours to read this article. I

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