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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler "What say, Old Man?"

    By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
    May 30, 2004


    What DO you say? What DID the other guy say? Everybody has those little "huh?" moments, so this puzzle dabbles in the jargon basket of ham radio along with the usual collection of oddities and surprises. Have fun with my 100th puzzle for readers of QST or Web visitors!


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    Across

    1. Paper from the FCC
    5. Q-signal for fading
    8. Steel-core wire is copper....
    11. Populous continent (abbr.)
    12. It's world wide!
    13. Means "Let me in!"
    16. Be healthy
    18. Sponsor of Kid's Day (abbr.)
    19. Most important part of the operator
    20. Discovered resistance law
    21. What kind of line is the telephone?
    23. Another word for kids
    26. Battery-type power
    27. Bane of multi-operator
    28. Width of a pipe (abbr.)
    29. Greek letter that rhymes with "Pi"
    31. Goes with feathers
    32. Prearranged contact
    34. Radio messages
    36. Some capacitors look like this kind of knob
    38. Before transmitting
    40. Rapid fading on a mobile signal
    44. Who makes the radio go? (abbr.)
    47. Award certification without submitting QSLs (abbr.)
    48. Primary power wire or bus
    50. Repeater
    52. The best kind of radio
    53. Third port of a mixer besides RF and IF
    54. Cheat
    55. Unit of land area
    56. Machine intelligence (abbr.)
    57. Smear
    59. Location (Q-signal)
    60. Abbreviation for radio club
    61. No or not
    63. What do man, boy, and chap have in common?
    65. Filter response just outside its passband
    66. The bell that ends a QSO

    Down

    1. Keystroke that jumps a few spaces
    2. Means "I am leaving the frequency"
    3. A mouse!
    4. Thanks (CW abbr.)
    6. These folks listen only
    7. The ASCII character CTRL-G rings this
    9. Accept and radiate power
    10. Tinker or repair
    14. What you do to the mail
    15. Activate or make ready
    16. Flexible mobile antenna
    17. Electromagnetic compatibility (abbr.)
    18. Popular RF connector style
    20. Powered up
    22. File format for Logbook Of the World
    23. Bounce off the ionosphere
    24. Transmission is finished
    25. Means "Your signal is mixed with noise"
    27. Scatter that reverses a signal
    30. Prefix for the country which makes paprika
    31. The ARRL service that provides technical material to hams
    32. CW emergency signal
    33. Knock-out (abbr.)
    35. A collection of antennas
    37. Unmarried woman (abbr.)
    39. What kind of brew is it when you make your gear yourself?
    40. The last transmission of a conversation
    41. Prefix for RF connector types
    42. Tuned circuit that isolates a portion of an antenna
    43. How many times do you touch a live wire?
    45. Amplifier (abbr.)
    46. Unit of conductance
    49. The kind of boat you buy at a hamfest
    51. Spurious emissions on a CW signal
    54. The square you live in
    55. You are .. a location or odds
    56. Abbreviation for ham radio organization
    57. Katie does this to the door
    58. Goes with 'bal'
    59. Atmospheric static (Q-signal)
    62. Roman numeral for one less than a dozen
    64. Logarithmic ratio

    Solution


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