Hi OM's,
Let us take a really brief look back at the period that the server has been up to today CQ.SK has passed, as well as an evaluation of its current operation and try to look into its near future with us...
The amateur radio portal CQ.SK has been operating for almost a year. During this time, he created a large circle of regular and irregular readers. Regular and irregular contributors were profiled, competitions also appeared. As the number of contributions and the breadth of topics covered by the published texts grew, so did the number of administrators and article editors. They try to maintain not only maximum factual, but also stylistic and grammatical correctness, or graphic clarity of contributions.
Simple math showed long ago that even if the portal operates on the national .SK domain, more than 45% of its visitors are readers from the Czech Republic (OK). In the same way, articles written in Czech often appear. In the course of the year, the administrators managed to prepare and operate the Czech and English versions of the system from the original purely Slovak version. The portal can thus speak to its readers in their native language. Even some texts are written in multiple languages - usually especially Czech and especially Slovak - without the reader even suspecting it.
All these facts led the CQ.SK team some time ago to the idea of changing the name of the portal so that it answers the truth far more accurately. The current subtitle "Slovak HAM portal" is therefore changing as of today, and the portal is given a new name that is universal enough in terms of language and far more accurate - "European HAM portal". Among other things, our portal is being prepared for the fact that it could also have other national mutations in the future. In connection with this, a change of the domain so that it is also "transnational" is not ruled out in the future.
The CQ.SK portal has found its stable place among similar Internet projects. It is not and does not want to be a competitor of narrowly profiled servers with amateur radio themes such as VKVZAVODY.TK, VHF.SK, VHF.CZ, SATELIT.CZ and the like. In the future, it wants to maintain its breadth of thematic coverage, independence from any radio amateur or private organization and, above all, non-commerciality.
You, as readers and contributors to CQ.SK, will help us the most in all of this
CQ.SK – "European HAM portal" team