Following up last month's editorial on "Looking Back at a Year of Looking Back," I think it's appropriate to start 2021, our 77th year of publication, with a look ahead. This year will be one of new beginnings ... a new decade, a new sunspot cycle, new leadership for the FCC with whatever that may portend for amateur radio. As I write this, we're also on the cusp of having a vaccine for the coronavirus, and the new year will hopefully bring us a return to some semblance of normalcy. Amateur radio has been a great antidote to the restrictions imposed in many places to help slow the spread of the virus. Social distancing, or what we've been calling social DXing, has been a part of ham radio's fabric since its earliest days, a means of bringing people together even when we're physically distanced from each other. That was never clearer than in the past year, as clubs expanded on-air nets and meetings and participation records were set across the board in contests. We hope this trend of increased activity will continue even after the pandemic is brought under control.
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