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Lazar, Siddall, join CQ as Contributing Editors

Two longtime hams will be joining CQ magazine's staff of contributing
editors, CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, announced today.
Dennis Lazar, W4DNN, has been named interim QRP Editor, effective with
the August issue; while David Siddall, K3ZJ, takes over as Contest
Editor as of the September issue.

Lazar is a longtime devotee of QRP, or low-power, operating, with 50
years of experience in working the world with 5 watts or less.
Originally licensed in 1960 as K8TSQ, Dennis has enjoyed a long and
varied career as an electronic technician in the Coast Guard, working
for a NASA subcontractor on the Apollo moon missions, as a trade
magazine editor, a community newspaper publisher and a naturopath
specializing in pain management. He has also been a frequent
contributor to CQ. Now retired and living in Port Charlotte, Florida,
Dennis and his wife, Ruth, K4KLQ, enjoy traveling the country in an
RV, with QRP always a part of their travels. Dennis is taking on the
role of QRP Editor on an interim basis while he sees how well a
column-writing schedule fits in with his travel schedule. His goal for
the column, he says, is to use it as a forum to share readers' "QRP
challenges and adventures."

Siddall is a veteran contester and past president of the Potomac
Valley Radio Club, one of America's leading contesting groups. He
lives in suburban Washington,DC, but has a contest station on a
mountaintop in West Virginia (featured on the cover of the July 2000
issue of CQ) that may be operated either locally or remotely. A
communications attorney practicing in the nation's capital, Dave
worked for many years on Capitol Hill and at the FCC before going into
private practice in 1998. During his time working for Congress, Dave
was frequently active from the U.S. Senate ham station, W3USS, and
organized the 1986 BV0BG DXpedition in Taiwan for Arizona Senator
Barry Goldwater, K7UGA (SK). He is also a past member of the ARRL
Contest Advisory Committee and served on the ARRL's national task
force on radio frequency interference. Siddall says he hopes to use
the CQ contesting column "to bring together tried-and-true contesting
techniques" with "new ideas and technologies in a way that encourages
contesters to experiment and improve their results."

"Both Dave and Dennis have written for CQ before and I have known each
of them for a long time," said Moseson. "I am looking forward to
working closely with them in the future."