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    ZERO BIAS: A CQ Editorial

    Oct 01, 2019 4 minutes
    BY RICH MOSESON,* W2VU

    Hurricane Dorian is beginning its march up the U.S. east coast as I write this, flooding Charleston after pummeling the Bahamas for days. Meanwhile, Led Zeppelin’s “Communication Breakdown” is playing on the radio … both appropriate scene-setters for CQ’s annual Emergency Communications Special.

    As this is written in early September, reports of damage and destruction in the Bahamas are only starting to trickle in, and we haven’t yet heard the extent to which amateur radio played a role in communications on the islands during and after the storm. With sustained winds of 185 miles

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