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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
    March 6, 2004


    "We're Movin' On Up" -- The Master Puzzler conceives a crossword concerning license upgrading.


    Licensing is in the air, with all the discussion about Morse Code testing and licensing structure and privileges. A lot of students are out there hitting the books and the Volunteer Examiners are getting the paperwork ready. Will you be trying for a license upgrade this year?

    Ward Silver, N0AX, authors--among numerous other things--the Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler, which appears twice a month on the ARRL Web site. He can be reached by e-mail at n0ax@arrl.net or by surface mail at Aetherworks Publishing, 22916 107th Ave NW, Vashon, WA, 98070.

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    Across

    1. To decipher Morse Code
    4. Metric mass (abbr.)
    6. Common queries (acronym)
    8. To stop working is to stand ...
    10. Community property owner's group (abbr.)
    12. Controlled by radio (acronym)
    13. Prosign meaning end of message
    14. The event where tests are given
    16. Study group led by a teacher
    17. Orbits with ham radio (acronym)
    19. A small amount
    20. Most populous Caribbean U.S. posession (abbr.)
    21. Prefix meaning "with"
    22. Rarest of the Balkan entities (prefix)
    23. A written exam
    26. What happens to licenses after ten years
    28. Put pen to paper
    29. Energized
    30. Image capture device (acronym)
    31. To supervise or manage an exam
    33. Guides for conduct
    36. Single frequency audio
    38. Even with low sunspots, DX ..!
    39. State with the first primary (abbr.)
    41. Largest ham event in June (abbr.)
    42. Powerful explosive (abbr.)
    44. Temporary record of passing an exam (acronym)
    46. Unannounced attendance (two words)
    48. Dance from KH6
    49. Polaris is the North ....
    50. Fibbed
    51. Personally selected call sign
    53. Not there
    54. Method for managing emergencies
    56. The only dumb question is one not .....
    57. Reactivates

    Down

    1. Possible selection
    2. ARRL Field Organization monitor (abbr.)
    3. The best test outcome
    5. Book that aids a student
    6. FCC licensee ID (acronym)
    7. Newest Morse prosign
    8. This makes perfect
    9. Test takers
    11. Dreams come true when you wish upon this (two words)
    13. Most popular material for building beam antennas (chemical symbol)
    15. One of two continents entirely in the Western Hemisphere (abbr.)
    16. Ship's sailors
    18. Beantown baseball team
    20. After noon (abbr.)
    22. Metal used for galvanizing
    24. Complete
    25. Not required (acronym)
    27. Group of test questions
    30. Computer display (acronym)
    31. Sharp implement used to record test answers
    32. Find out later (acronym)
    33. Sign up
    34. Permit
    35. Posture between prone and erect
    37. Exams available over the Internet (two words)
    40. ..MS is a protocol used for meteor scatter QSOs
    41. Long-term fight between families
    43. Announcement of an event
    45. Examine for correctness
    46. Electromagnetic energy travels as a ....
    47. If you fail, you might do this
    52. Electrical discharge
    53. Stores information on your computer (acronym)
    54. Not out
    55. Opposite of NE

    Solution


    Page last modified: 03:38 PM, 05 Mar 2004 ET
    Page author: n0ax@arrl.org
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