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ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

What does grinding a crystal have in common with winning the CQ World Wide DX Contest? More than you might think…

It all started when Lisa Roberts, AL6Y, a protégé of Contributing Editor Eric Nichols, KL7AJ, submitted an article about learning from Eric how to hand-grind vintage crystals to bring them into the ham bands to use with vintage radios. Interesting article for some future issue, I thought. Next, I got KØNEB’s Kit-Building column for this month (p. 50), which is focused on the Four States QRP Group’s

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