CQ Editor, Alan M. Dorhoffer, K2EEK, died, July 19, from complications of cancer surgery. He was 61. Dorhoffer, who’d served as editor of CQ for nearly a quarter-century, had spent his entire professional life at the magazine. He started as an assistant editor in 1964 and become the magazine's tenth editor in 1976. He’d been a co-owner of the magazine since 1979.

A ham since his teenage years, Dorhoffer, who lived in Port Washington, New York, concentrated his activity on his favorite band, 10 meters. At CQ, he tried to focus on the “people” specs of Amateur Radio. “Ham radio is people interacting with other people,” he wrote in the magazine’s 50th anniversary issue, and on the things people do with Amateur Radio “The act of doing, whether it’s contests or awards, that's been my outlook,”

CQ Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, said Dorhoffer had been like a brother to him for more than 42 years. “We’d butt heads from time to time on editorial matters, but that in no way diminished our mutual love and respect,” Ross said. “He was always there for everybody.”

—The ARRL Newsletter, Vol. 18. No. 29, Jul. 23, ‘99

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