'CQ' Realigning Publications, Adding 'CQ Plus' Digital Supplement
CQ Communications, Inc. has announced plans to realign its roster of publications and to launch an exciting new online supplement to its flagship magazine, CQ Amateur Radio.
"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.
Effective with the February 2014 issue of CQ, said Ross,
content from the magazine's three sister publications, Popular Communications,
CQ VHF and WorldRadio Online, will be incorporated into CQ's digital edition as
a supplement to be called CQ Plus. With this change, hobby radio enthusiasts of
all types will be able to go to a single source - CQ - 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 Popular Communications and
WorldRadio Online, will be Editor of CQ Plus.
"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."
"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."
The expanded material will be an integral part of the
digital edition of CQ, 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.
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: < https://www.surveymonkey.com/
