CQ Amateur Radio

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CQ Amateur Radio
Editor	Richard Moseson, W2VU
Categories	Amateur radio
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	CQ Communications, Inc.
First issue	January, 1945
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.cq-amateur-radio.com

For other uses of the CQ acronym, see CQ.

Not to be confused with CQ ham radio.

CQ Amateur Radio (also known simply as CQ or CQ magazine) is a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts. The magazine has a worldwide readership base for its English language edition. A Spanish language edition is published in Spain with some translations of articles from the English language edition and some original European content.

CQ Amateur Radio is not associated with the similarly-named Japanese magazine CQ ham radio.

[edit] Contest promotions

CQ Amateur Radio organizes, adjudicates, and publishes the results of several annual radio competitions, including the CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest, the CQ World Wide WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide DX Contest, and the CQ World Wide VHF Contest. All of these contests allow participation by amateur radio operators in any country of the world.