CQ Amateur Radio

ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

Little Things (and One Big One)

elcome to our annual QRP Special, in which we focus on one of the “less is more” aspects of our hobby — shining a spotlight on the amazing results you can achieve with a peanut-powered transmitter. As usual, our articles reflect not only some of these success stories but the variety of ways in which we hams put QRP to work for ourselves and for each other. We start with WB9HDH’s story of returning to active hamming after a 40-year absence and determining that QRP CW was his

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