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ANTENNAS

(Early Days of CQ, That Is)

After nearly 150 antenna columns for various CQ Communications publications, the well was getting pretty dry. But this is the 75th anniversary year of CQ and our editor suggested going back over the early days of CQ and seeing what topics might be good to look at in a more modern light. For this month’s column, we went back to CQ issues from the late 1940s and 1950.

First you have to get used to Mc (Megacycles) vs. MHz (Megahertz). Next is

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