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By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
March 28, 2003
Have fun playing Ham Radio Magazine Publisher! This time we take a cruise through the section of the dictionary that relates to ham radio magazines and all those myriad activities that take place to put QST in your hands every month. Put on your green eye-shade, sharpen that editor's pencil and have at it!
Ward Silver, N0AX, is the author--among numerous other things--of 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.
Across
2. Main story
5. Repeat a sound
7. One print run of a magazine or book
11. Unwanted ad
13. Battery supplied power (abbr.)
14. What part don't you understand?
15. A writer must also be a good .......
16. Low Frequency (abbr.)
18. Circular antenna
20. Magazines have one on the front and back
23. Receive magazines via this
24. ARRL and QST founder
25. Sharp and thin for joining or holding
29. Teletype (abbr.)
32. Writes antenna column for Worldradio
34. Writer
36. Type of AC measurement (abbr.)
37. Smell
38. File Transfer Protocol (abbr.)
39. When finished, ... it to bed
40. A completed magazine
42. Founder of 73 Magazine
44. Pay to receive magazine
45. Printed
46. Takes a photo
50. Editors must have this quality
52. Last date for submitting material
55. Scan through quickly
56. An idea or suggestion
58. Opposite of she
59. Jerk back and forth
61. Sweet potato
63. Adjustable receive frequency (abbr.)
64. Timely information
66. Put together
69. Intellectual Property (abbr.)
71. Person or business financing an event
72. Reporter
Down
1. Do .. I say
2. Big California city (abbr.)
3. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
4. Regular set of articles (abbr.)
6. Runs every month
7. 5 Across again
8. List of articles
9. In the direction of
10. Lubricate
12. Every ham magazine has a column on this
17. Special article
19. Transfer to paper
20. Ads sorted by topic
21. ARRL sponsors this contest
22. Opinion (abbr.)
26. To be
27. First name of CQ's longest-running columnist
28. Or Best Offer (abbr.)
30. Irwin Math writes this CQ column
31. Story in a magazine
33. Business paying to display information
35. Big brown truck company
39. Own and distribute a magazine
41. Tree fluid
43. Not applicable (abbr.)
46. Long thin hole
47. Antenna tuner (abbr.)
48. QST's short items
49. Not being used
50. CQ sponsors this contest
51. Looks for
53. Estimated Time of Arrival (abbr.)
54. Persons that review and correct material
57. Church seat
59. Identical
60. Retain
62. Send by post
64. Contest magazine
65. Formal salutation for males
67. Bit of least value (abbr.)
68. Last
70. Type of semiconductor junction (abbr.)
Here's the Solution -- Don't Peek!