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    CQ ’s World-Wide DX Contest

    Aug 01, 2023 3 minutes

    CQ CLASSIC: CQWW at 75: The First CQ World Wide DX Contest Announcement, August 1948

    This fall marks the 75th anniversary of the CQ World Wide DX Contest, long the world’s most popular amateur radio contest and, by some reckonings, the largest participation sporting event anywhere.

    This year’s CQWW contest announcement is elsewhere in this issue. For this month’s “CQ Classic,” we take a look back exactly 75 years, to the August 1948 issue, and the first CQWW announcement. While the rules back then were much shorter and simpler (remote operations over the internet were

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