A Two-Band Antenna WITH LOW-IMPEDANCE FEED
Limited space for antennas is a problem that’s as old as ham radio itself, as illustrated by the following article that ran exactly 75 years ago this month, in May 1946. But even more significant than the antenna is the fact that this is the first CQ article by Gene Black, then W2ESO/W1NVO and later W2LL. Gene was a fixture on the CQ staff from this point through 1951, when he served nine months as Editor, but his influence extended much further. Readers didn’t always know when Gene had penned a particular article, as he recalled in an interview for CQ’s 50th anniversary issue in 1995: “I used to ghost-write a lot of stuff … In one issue, I had three or four articles under different names, not one of them my own.”
But perhaps Gene’s biggest contribution to CQ was bringing George Jacobs, W3ASK, on board as Propagation Editor, a position George held for more than 50 years. Also reminiscing in our 50th anniversary edition, W3ASK recalled:
“In 1949, I joined the engineering staff of the Voice of America specializing in HF propagation. One of my tasks was to write a weekly propagation report
