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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watch and Listen to the La Crosse </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">AM-FM-NOAA Weather Radio in Action</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPpxon1Qdr4">Click here</a> to access a YouTube video featuring this hand-held receiver during a National Weather Service / NOAA weather alert recently in Southern California.</span></div>
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CQ Newsroomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067943873804349922noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7852255659865807375.post-81640562079459217052014-09-05T09:46:00.002-07:002014-09-05T09:46:43.736-07:00Trees As Radio Antennas? Kurt Wants to Know!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1oMX3f4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to read the 67-page United States Army Electronics Command document </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Performance of Trees as Radio Antennas in Tropical Jungle Forests,"</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> published in February 1972.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have ever used "vegetable radiators" successfully in amateur, military or commercial radio, <b><i>Aerials'</i> Kurt N. Sterba</b> would certainly like to hear about your experiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Write to him at <<a href="mailto:CQPlusDigital@gmail.com">CQPlusDigital@gmail.com</a>>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TNX and 73,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richard Fisher, KI6SN</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 22.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Move to Local
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> One of New
York City’s top talk radio outlets is taking a measured and dramatic turn to locally-focused
hosts and issues as a counter-move to the loss of two of its big-draw
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “We’re
delivering on our pledge to invest in localized content that will entertain,
inform and engage listeners while also providing advertisers unique
opportunities to reach their customers on a sustained basis,” John Dickey, Cumulus’s co-chief operating officer, said in a
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experts speaking at the Syracuse University-sponsored Audio Summit in September
2013 in New York City pointed to local programming as a key to success for AM
radio stations in a saturated syndicated market. <i>(<b>IN DEPTH: </b>See “The Power of
the Microphone” in February CQ’s digital supplement, CQ Plus <<a href="http://cq-amateur-radio.com/">http://cq-amateur-radio.com</a>>. –
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don Imus’ nationally
syndicated “Imus in the Morning,” which has always had a New York-New
Jersey-Connecticut sense-of-place, runs from 6 to 10 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geraldo Rivera focuses on
New York news and issues from 10 a.m. to noon.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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weekdays are Curtis Sliwa, a streetwise conservative, teamed with
progressive Ron Kuby. They are up against Limbaugh and were previously
teamed on WABC from 2000 to 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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conservative host Michael Savage is on from 3 to 5 p.m., going
head-to-head with WOR’s Hannity.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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you can’t take away from people,” Kiernan told the <i>New York Times.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CQ Communications, Inc.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has announced plans to realign its
roster of publications and to launch an exciting new online supplement to its
flagship magazine, </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>CQ Amateur Radio.</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The hobby radio market is changing," said CQ
Communications President and Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, "and we are
changing what we do and how we do it in order to continue providing leadership
to all segments of the radio hobby." CQ Communications is currently the
only publisher in the United States serving the broad radio hobby, from
broadcast band DXing to amateur radio moonbounce and satellite communications.
CQ itself has been amateur radio's leading independent voice for seven decades.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Effective with the February 2014 issue of CQ, said Ross,
content from the magazine's three sister publications, <i>Popular Communications,
CQ VHF</i> and <i>WorldRadio Online,</i> will be incorporated into <b><i>CQ's </i></b>digital edition as
a supplement to be called <b><i>CQ Plus.</i></b> With this change, hobby radio enthusiasts of
all types will be able to go to a single source <b><i>- CQ -</i></b> for articles on the
broader aspects of hobby radio, from shortwave listening and scanner monitoring
to personal two-way services and Internet radio, as well as amateur radio.
Richard Fisher, KI6SN, currently Editor of both <i>Popular Communications</i> and
<i>WorldRadio Online,</i> will be Editor of <b><i>CQ Plus. </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Our primary audience is ham radio operators,"
explained Ross, "but very few hams began their radio involvement as
amateurs. Most of us started out as shortwave listeners, broadcast band DXers,
CBers or scanning enthusiasts. Many continue to be involved in many different
aspects of the radio hobby in addition to amateur radio." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"By consolidating four specialized publications into
one," Ross continued, "we will be better able to keep these
multidimensional readers informed on all aspects of the radio hobby while
simultaneously exposing those who are not hams to all the excitement and
opportunities that amateur radio has to offer. We see this as a win-win for all
of our readers and our advertisers, who will now be able to reach a wider and
more diverse audience." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The expanded material will be an integral part of the
digital edition of <b><i>CQ,</i></b> and will be included as part of a standard digital
subscription. Each month's digital edition will simply continue beyond where
the print edition ends, offering supplemental material on all aspects of hobby
radio communication and will include selected columns carried over from the
other magazines. The added digital content will make full use of the multimedia
opportunities presented by digital publications. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subscribers to WorldRadio Online and the digital editions of Pop’Comm and CQ VHF will receive the digital edition of CQ (including CQ Plus) for the remaining number of issues in their subscription terms. [Print subscribers to Pop’Comm and CQ VHF will receive both the print and digital editions of CQ (including CQ Plus) for the remaining number of issues in their subscription terms. In order for Popular Communications and CQ VHF print edition subscribers to receive CQ Plus - we need your email address! If you have not given it to us already, please do so via this link: < <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CQ-Plus-Update" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/<wbr></wbr>s/CQ-Plus-Update</a> >.</span></div>
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