CQ Amateur Radio November 2022

CQ is the magazine for active hams, with a focus on the practical. Every article is clearly written and aimed at involving you, the reader...whether it's a story of operating from some exotic location, an article to deepen your understanding of ham radio science and technology, or a fun-to-build project that will have practical use in your ham shack. Join us on our monthly journey through the broad and varied landscape of the world's most fascinating hobby!

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NOVEMBER BELTON, MISSOURI — The Raytown Amateur Radio Club and the Southside Amateur Radio Club will hold the Raytown & Southside Hamfest from 7:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday, November 5 at the Mill Creek Upper Elementary School, 308 South Cleveland Avenue. Email: <info@southsidearc.net>. Website: <http://southsidearc.net>. Talk-in 145.17-(PL 151.4) or 147.12+ (PL 151.4). VE exams. CONGRESS, ARIZONA — The Hassayampa Amateur Radio Klub will hold the HARKfest Tailgate Hamfest from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, November 5 at the North Ranch Escapees RV Park, 30625 S. Highway 89. Contact: Duane Grooms, KDØKYK, <djgrooms@yahoo.com>. Website: <www.harkaz.org>. Talk-in 146.620 (PL 162.2). Free VE exams, ARRL card checking. ENID, OKLAHOMA — The Enid Amateur Radio Club will hold 2022 Enid Hamfest from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, November 5 at the Stride Bank Center, 301 S.…

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KD2JTX Elected ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, KD2JTX, has been elected as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, the first woman to hold the position. She takes the reins of the United Nations agency for telecommunication regulation on January 1, 2023. Bogdan-Martin has been Director of the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau since 2019, at that time becoming the first woman to hold a senior leadership position in the agency. She is the second radio amateur to hold the agency’s top spot. Dr. Hamadoun Touré, HB9EHT, was Secretary-General from 2007 to 2014. WRC-23 to be Held in Dubai The International Telecommunication Union has announced that the 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23) will be held from November 20th through December 15th in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. WRCs are held every three to four years, at which…

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zero bias: a cq editorial

Autumn is prime time for contesting (one “C”), with the CQ World Wide DX Contest’s SSB weekend just past at the end of October and the CW weekend (second “C”) coming up at the end of this month. Then, as we move into colder weather and start to hibernate in our ham shacks and workshops, it’s a perfect time to build stuff, making “construction” our third “C” of the season. The software side of our hobby also gets in on the alphabet action, with much programming for microcontrollers being written in the “C” computer language. This issue touches on all four of them. Contesting is front-and-center this month, from our cover to the CW results of this year’s CQ WPX Contest, the announcement of next year’s CQWW 160-Meter Contest and our…

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Audrey McElroy, KM4BUN, of Cumming, Georgia, was presented with the Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year award at last summer’s Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama. McElroy, who is 18, is a sophomore at Georgia Tech and actively promotes science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers among girls and young women. See our August issue’s “News Bytes” column for more about Audrey. Corporate co-sponsors of the YHOTY program include Yaesu USA, CQ magazine, Heil Sound, Gigaparts, and Radiowavz. (Photos courtesy Joe Eisenberg, KØNEB)…

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features

Contesting With Wolves — The ZV4SL Serra do Lopo Contest Station

The “Serra do Lopo” contest station can be considered without a doubt as a different sort of contest station, located in a rare or at least atypical place. The name of the station comes from the Serra do Lopo, or Wolf Mountains, given that name due to the large number of wolves that inhabit the region (Photo A). Serra do Lopo is located on the border between the cities of Extrema, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and Joanópolis in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The Pico do Lopo (Photo B), is the highest point of the mountain at 1,750 meters (5,740 Feet) high. The only access is through trails along socalled “Rota dos Ventos.” The path begins at the foot of the huge mountain, passing through forests and streams.…

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IN THIS ISSUE

Results of the 2022 CQ World Wide WPX CW Contest

Thank you, Oleg, EI7KD, for the opportunity to take part in my favorite contest. – EI/US2YW First time ever that I participated in a WPX CW Contest! My little QRP station, it gave me a lot of satisfaction! – IZ4AFL What great fun. Of course, the conditions are never perfect but that did not spoil the fun. – TF1AM The band are the bands. Nothing broke, everything worked, Yeah! I had fun. – WA8Y One of my mentors advised that increased sunspot activity brings both improved propagation and increased likelihood of solar disturbances. His wisdom proved accurate for the 2022 edition of the CQWW WPX CW contest. We were teased by conditions prior to the contest, particularly on the high bands. However, the K-index started to shoot up the day prior to the contest…

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