[Dx-qsl] CQ Publications - Major Changes

Thu Dec 26 21:00:17 EST 2013

From: n2qt at yahoo.com 
 > Date: 2013年12月25日 16:24:54 -0500 
 > To: pvrc at mailman.qth.net 
 > Subject: [PVRC] Cq magazine changes 
 > 
 > Still no December magazine, but this showed on ARRL website. 
 > 
 > 12/24/2013 
 > CQ Communications Inc has announced plans to realign its publications 
lineup and to launch a 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.” 
 > 
 > Effective with the February 2014 issue of CQ, said Ross, content from 
the magazine’s three sister publications — Popular Communications, CQ 
VHF andWorldRadio Online — will be incorporated into CQ’s digital 
edition as a supplement to be called CQ Plus. The print editions of 
Popular Communicationsand CQ VHF will be phased out, and WorldRadio 
Online will no longer exist as a separate online publication. Current 
Popular Communications, CQ VHF andWorldRadio Online subscribers will be 
converted to CQ subscribers and receive CQ Plus at no additional charge. 
Details will be posted on each magazine’s website. 
 > 
 > CQ Communications says the change will offer hobby radio enthusiasts 
a single source for articles 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, but very few hams began 
their radio involvement as amateurs,” Ross said. “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.” Ross said consolidating 
four specialized publications into one will keep “multidimensional 
readers” informed on all aspects of the radio hobby, at the same time 
exposing non-hams “to all the excitement and opportunities that Amateur 
Radio has to offer.” 
 > 
 > 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 continue beyond where the print 
edition ends, offering supplemental material on all aspects of hobby 
radio communication and selected columns carried over from the other 
magazines. The added digital content will make full use of the 
multimedia opportunities presented by digital publications. 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > Mark. N2QT 
 > ______________________________________________________________ 
 > PVRC mailing list 
 > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/pvrc 
 > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm 
 > Post: mailto:PVRC at mailman.qth.net 
 > 
 > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net 
 > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate 
______________________________________________________________ 
DX-QSL mailing list 
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx-qsl 
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm 
Post: mailto:DX-QSL at mailman.qth.net 
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net 
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html