K9YA Telegraph

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K9YA Telegraph
September 2006 cover
Editor	Philip Cala-Lazar, K9PL
Categories	Amateur radio
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Robert F. Heytow Memorial Radio Club
First issue	January 2004
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.k9ya.org

The K9YA Telegraph is a free, monthly, general interest amateur radio e-Zine first published in January 2004. The journal of the Robert F. Heytow Memorial Radio Club, the K9YA Telegraph is distributed to subscribers in over 100 countries via e-mail as a PDF file. Issues comprise original articles written by authors drawn from its subscriber base. Notable among these authors is frequent contributor Rod Newkirk, W9BRD/VA3ZBB, former "How's DX" columnist for QST magazine.

The K9YA Telegraph is unique in offering the amateur radio community a no-cost, high concept publication covering a number of topics unavailable elsewhere and in providing a welcoming venue and readership to first-time writers. The Telegraph's staff includes: Michael Dinelli, N9BOR, layout; Philip Cala-Lazar, K9PL, editor; and Dick Sylvan, W9CBT, cartoonist. Dick Sylvan's cartoons, after first appearing in the K9YA Telegraph, are then reprinted monthly in RadCom, the journal of the Radio Society of Great Britain. A collection of Dick's cartoons is reproduced in the book, HI HI--A Collection of Ham Radio Cartoons (ISBN 1-4116-6195-8).

K9YA Telegraph articles have been referenced in the Contester's Rate Sheet, a publication of the American Radio Relay League and The Keynote, the journal of the International Morse Preservation Society (FISTS). The Fifth Edition of the book, The Art & Skill of Radio-Telegraphy by William Pierpont, NØHFF, will contain original content from the K9YA Telegraph.

K9YA Telegraph motto: The Good News About Amateur Radio