CQ VHF Magazine

 CQ VHF Magazine 

CQ VHF was a magazine serving the ham radio operators whose operational and technical interests lay above 50 MHz that started in 1996. It was based in the United States at Hicksville, New York, with the main editor as Joe Lynch. CQ Communications Incorporation published it

The magazine focused on radio technology, products, and activities on 6 meters, 2 meters, 440 MHz, and above, covering a broad range of skill levels, from the new technician to the extra class microwave experimenter, and included operating, technical and construction articles. The magazine was published quarterly until it ceased publications in 2013.

CQ Communications were also publishers of CQ Amateur Radio magazine, World Radio magazine, and Popular Communications magazine.

The corporation ceased publications of CQ VHF and Popular Communications magazines at the same time. It combined them with World Radio magazine to a digitized version called CQ Plus that started publications in 2014. This was a way to realign their publications and launch a new online supplement to cope with changing times and technology. Their primary audience remained the ham radio operators, as stated by the corporations’ president and publisher Dick Ross. However, the publications covered broader aspects of hobby radio, from shortwave listening and scanner monitoring to two-way personal services and internet radio and amateur radio. Richard Fisher, who was the editor of both Popular Communications and World Radio, took over as the editor of CQ Plus. The motivation of this consolidation was to keep multi-dimensional readers informed on all aspects of the radio hobby while simultaneously exposing those who are not hams to all the excitement and openings that amateur radio has to offer.