zero bias: a cq editorial

The SSB results of the 2022 CQ World Wide WPX Contest are published in this issue and, not surprisingly, the number of logs submitted is down from last year. There are two main reasons for this: 1) the “pandemic bump” of 2020 and 2021 is receding, as more people return to “normal” activities, and 2) CQ’s policy restricting the participation of stations in Russia and Belarus due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (as well as the total lack of entries from Ukraine, where ham radio is shut down due to the war).

Because of this drop in submitted logs, CQ management has, we have decided to keep the policy in place.