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In the CQ World Wide DX Contest, the world's largest HF contest, leading multi-operator stations on phone and CW can make up to 25, 000 contacts in a forty-eight hour period, while even single operators with world-class stations in rare locations have been known to exceed 10, 000 contacts, an average of over three per minute, every minute.
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CQ and World
* First CQ World Wide DX Contest held in October and November.
The CQ World Wide DX Contest permits stations to contact other stations anywhere else on the planet, and attracts tens of thousands of participating stations each year.
The CQ World Wide WPX Contest, for example, is held as a phone-only competition one weekend in March, and a CW-only competition one weekend in May.
Over 30, 000 amateur radio operators participated in the phone weekend of the 2000 CQ World Wide DX Contest, and the top-scoring single operator station that year, located in the Galápagos Islands, made over 9, 000 contacts.
A typical exchange between two stations on voice — in this case between a station in England and one in New Zealand in the CQ World Wide DX Contest — might proceed as follows:
CQ and DX
In ham radio usage, a CQ call can be qualified by appending more letters, as in CQ DX ( meaning " calling all long-distance stations "), or the ITU call sign prefix for a particular country ( e. g. CQ VK for " calling Australia ").
CQ and Contest
Recognizing the vitality and maturity of the sport, CQ Amateur Radio magazine established the Contest Hall of Fame in 1986.
CQ and largest
CQ was founded in 1945 by Nelson Poynter and his wife, Henrietta Poynter, with the aim of providing a link between local newspapers and the complex politics within Washington D. C. CQ has the largest news team covering Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers.
CQ and contest
: Station 1: CQ contest Mike Two Whiskey, Mike Two Whiskey, contest.
CQ and stations
Land telegraphs had traditionally used " CQ " (" sécu ," from the French word sécurité or secours ) to identify alert or precautionary messages of interest to all stations along a telegraph line, and CQ had also been adopted as a " general call " for maritime radio use.
CQ and on
Due to the efforts of Merrill Swan, W6AEE, of the " The RTTY Society of Southern California " publisher of RTTY and Wayne Green, W2NSD, of CQ Magazine, Amateur Radio operators successfully petitioned the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to amend Part 12 of the Regulations, which was effective on February 20, 1953.
CQ Magazine also published details on phone phreaking, including the tone frequencies and several working blue box schematics in 1974.
'" According to Politico, Carney, a staff writer covering lobbying and influence for CQ Roll Call, " made the first identifiable, published reference to ' super PAC ' as it ’ s known today while working at National Journal, writing on June 26, 2010, of a group called Workers ’ Voices, that it was a kind of '" super PAC " that could become increasingly popular in the post-Citizens United world.
In April 2009, CQ Politics, also quoting anonymous sources, said Harman had been captured on a National Security Agency wiretap prior to the 2006 elections, telling an " Israeli agent " that she would " waddle into " lobbying the Department of Justice on the AIPAC case.
Congressional Quarterly, Inc., or CQ, is part of a privately owned publishing company called CQ Roll Call that produces a number of publications reporting primarily on the United States Congress.
In 1965, Poynter summed up his reasons for founding CQ, saying: " The federal government will never set up an adequate agency to check on itself, and a foundation is too timid for that.
CQ was also an early leader in delivering information on a real-time basis, starting with a dial-up service in 1984.
In recent years, CQ has launched several electronic-only newsletters with greater focus on particular areas, including CQ Homeland Security, CQ BudgetTracker, and " CQ HealthBeat.
CQ Press, a division of SAGE Publications, publishes books, directories, periodicals, and electronic products on American government and politics, with an expanding list in international affairs and journalism and mass communication.
CQ Researcher, a print and online periodical covering today's most debated social and political issues, won the ABA Silver Gavel Award in 2002 for its series on liberty and justice.
The CQ Press Professional Division produces staff directories, the most authoritative sources for biographical and contact information on the people who work in federal, congressional, and judicial offices.
Transmitting the letters CQ on a particular radio frequency is an invitation for any operators listening on that frequency to respond.
A CQ call is normally not used on short range VHF / FM and UHF / FM communication channels and, especially, on repeaters.
* Congressional Quarterly Congress and the Nation: 2001-2004: A Review of Government and Politics: 107th and 108th Congresses ( 2005 ); summary of Congressional activity, as well as major executive and judicial decisions ; based on Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and the annual CQ almanac.
The partnership was expanded in early 2009 so that CQ now sells advertising on Political Wire.
He has also written articles on public policy issues, which were published in various publications, including Black Family Today, The Dallas Morning News, The CQ Researcher, Orange Register and The Washington Times.
Bello sits on the board of The CQ Matrix Company.
In 2011, the song appeared in a NicoDerm CQ commercial with a miniature little band playing the song on the table of the former smoker.
CQ and phone
Harman ended the phone call, according to CQ, by saying, " This conversation doesn ’ t exist.
CQ and can
CQ or C-IQ ( Collaborative IQ or Collaborative Intelligence ) measures the collaborative effectiveness of a group, which can be greater or less than the aggregate knowledge and capability possessed by individual group members.
CQ and make
CQ is a code used by wireless operators, particularly those communicating in Morse code, but also by voice operators, to make a general call ( called a CQ call ).
CQ and 25
Michel Tremblay, CQ ( born in Montreal, Quebec 25 June 1942 ) is a Canadian novelist and playwright.
It is among the top 25 safest cities in the country, according to CQ Press's research.
Jean Hotte-Duceppe, CQ ( October 25, 1923 – December 7, 1990 ) was a stage and television actor from Montreal, Quebec.
Samuel Patterson Smyth " Sam " Pollock, OC, CQ ( December 25, 1925 – August 15, 2007 ) was a general manager in the National Hockey League of Canada and the USA.
CQ and 000
Federal Staff Directory: CQ Press ’ s Federal Staff Directory is the one-stop reference for more than 40, 000 contacts in the Executive Office of the President, the Cabinet, independent agencies, and quasi-official agencies.
CQ and operators
Although used worldwide by Marconi operators, CQD was never adopted as an international standard since it could be mistaken for a general call " CQ " if the reception was poor.
* CQ ( call ), a code used by radio operators
The CQ call was originally used by landline telegraphy operators in the United Kingdom.
CQ and with
Some tertiary facilities are available in Yeppoon which look set to expand significantly under a proposal to merge the State-funded CQ Tafe campuses across the Central Queensland region with CQ University.
Émile Joseph " Butch " Bouchard, CM, CQ ( September 4, 1919 – April 14, 2012 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956.
Serge Aubrey " The Senator " Savard, OC, CQ ( born January 22, 1946 ) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman, most famously with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).
CQ was acquired by the Economist Group and combined with Roll Call to form CQ Roll Call in 2009.
In 2005, CQ's flagship publication, the Weekly Report, was re-launched as CQ Weekly with a wider focus, including " government, commerce and politics.
The CQ Press College Publishing Group publishes political science textbooks, combining innovative titles with well-known classics, all of which maintain CQ Press's high standards of quality and distinction.
Françoise David, CQ ( born 1948 ) is the spokesperson, with Amir Khadir, of Québec solidaire — a left-wing, feminist and sovereignist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Roll Call merged with CQ in 2009 after the latter company was purchased by The Economist Group, Roll Call's parent company.
The magazine was established in 1969 by Thomas N. Schroth, who formed the publication after being fired from his post as editor of Congressional Quarterly, with many CQ staff defecting to the new publication.
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