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Summer is here and the antenna projects--creation, addition, revision, and repair--are underway. As long as you're at it, let me throw you a line! This week's quiz focuses on the stuff we use to connect our radios to those precious skyhooks. Pull up an empty spool and take a break while you solve this one.

Across
1. Same load across the band
4. Observe visually
6. Short sections of transmission line
11. RF feedback makes a speaker do this
13. First two letters of satellite designator
14. Overload (abbr.)
16. Measures power
18. Unit of time (abbr.)
19. Switches xmtr and rcvr (abbr.)
20. Graph versus azimuth
21. A length of transmission line or a wire antenna
23. Group by similar characteristics
24. Sporadic-E (abbr.)
25. First two letter of male UHF connector
26. Friendly term for male operator (CW abbr.)
28. Prefix meaing "before"
29. Chart for solving transmission line problems
31. Receiver oscillator (abbr.)
33. Rare seventh-district state (abbr.)
34. Connector that converts types or joins
36. CW abbreviation for AND
37. Joins ropes together
39. Slower in a transmission line
40. Hardware (abbr.)
41. Gas that holds up balloon antennas (Chemical symbol)
42. Electric shock
44. Instrument that measures X and R
47. Education (abbr.)
48. Amateur
49. Web address (abbr.)
50. Wasted material
53. Series inductance (abbr.)
54. Base current (abbr.)
56. Praise or compliment
57. Conductors are made from this metal (Chemical symbol)
58. Characteristic of transmission line
59. Elevation (abbr.)
60. Best ratio of load to line Z
61. Capacitive reactance (symbol)
62. Neatly arranged

Down
2. Component in a matching network
3. Layer
4. Part of a UHF cable connector that goes on first
5. Two components of radio energy (symbols)
6. Measure of matching (abbr.)
7. Transmission line (abbr.)
8. Double female connector
9. First two letters of UHF receptable
10. Used to hold antennas up
12. Overhead (abbr.)
15. A cable that loses or dissipates energy
16. What an expert works
17. Prefix meaning "again"
19. What AM and PAC have in common
22. Opposite of no-go
23. First transmission type
25. Arranging antenna or line currents
27. When all of the line energy is transferred to the load
30. A large number of things
32. Group of eight
33. How energy travels in space and in transmission lines
35. The wrong loads sets these off
36. ARES leader (abbr.)
38. Capacitor whose value is stable with temperature
41. Type of line with a spiral center insulator
42. Coating on the outside of a line
43. With load attached
44. Coax-to-two-conductor transformer
45. Load that simulates an antenna
46. Blind mathematician who discovered the relationship between exponentials and trigonometry
51. Russian prefix
52. Prefix of plastics used as transmission line insulation
55. Popular low-power RF connector type
57. Prefix meaning "with"