CQ Amateur Radio

CQ Amateur Radio

August 2010 Cover
Editor	Richard Moseson, W2VU
Categories	Amateur radio
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	60,000
Publisher	CQ Communications, Inc.
First issue	January 1945
Country	USA
Based in	Hicksville, New York
Language	English
Website	www.cq-amateur-radio.com
ISSN	0007-893X

CQ Amateur Radio (also known simply as CQ or CQ magazine, and formerly as CQ: The Radio Amateur's Journal) (OCLC 310821852) is a magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts first published in 1945. The English language edition is read worldwide; Spanish language edition is published in Spain with some translations of articles from the English language edition and some original European content. The magazine was also published in France with partial translation of the original edition between 1995 and 2000 (ISSN 1267-2750).

Published by CQ Communications, the title is based on the CQ call; the publication is not associated with the similarly named Japanese magazine CQ ham radio.

CQ Amateur Radio organizes, adjudicates, and publishes the results of several annual radio competitions, including the CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest, the CQ World Wide WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY Contest, the CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest, the CQ World Wide DX Contest, and the CQ World Wide VHF Contest. All of these contests allow participation by amateur radio operators in any country of the world.

CQ Amateur Radio is also associated with a number of amateur radio awards, of which the best known is Worked All Zones. Other awards offered are the WPX and the "USA Counties".