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Have you ever looked in the bag of stuff that you bought at the hamfest and wondered, "How did all this stuff get in here?" Well, you'll feel the same way about this crossword. It's all ham stuff, but, shall we say, a little eclectic? This puzzle will give you a good all-muscle workout!

Across

1. Company whose rig models begin with IC
3. Ads sorted by type
9. Crystal signal generator (abbr.)
10. What Santa says instead of HI
11. Telephone (abbr.)
12. Transmit
15. Spectrum display that moves vertically
19. Transistor current gain (abbr.)
20. Prefix from Argentina
21. Where you go for quick treatment (abbr.)
23. Stainless Steel (abbr.)
24. Devices used to communicate via light
27. Relates circumference to diameter
28. Small moon of Jupiter
29. Designator for space shuttle missions
30. Specified value
32. Smallest piece of information
34. Social organization of hams
36. Type of insulator
37. Northernmost state (abbr.)
39. Broadcast FM subcarrier (abbr.)
40. Newest Canadian territory (abbr.)
41. Prefix for host country of WRTC-2002
42. Paper achievement award
47. Output power (abbr.)
48. Metric mass (abbr.)
49. Added to CTRL and DEL to reset PC
50. Popular island DXing award
52. Make available for purchase
54. List of software choices
56. When bruised, you're ..ack and ..ue
57. Inventor of radio broadcasting
59. As opposed to fro
61. Data interchange format
62. Sticky HV transformer insulation
63. What your head does after too much radio
64. The sideband used below 10 MHz
67. Most popular angle modulation
68. An innate understanding
69. Top membership-elected ARRL official

Down

1.Systems that lands airplanes
2. Primitive, but popular model (two words)
3. Loosens nuts (abbr.)
4. A YL
5. Your muscles after some tower work
6. Pink bird from the Hurricane State
7. To have eaten too many hamfest hot dogs
8. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)
13. Extra-strong guy cable (abbr.)
14. Province with VO1 prefix (abbr.)
16. Protocol to establish a digital link automatically
17. Tightens guy wires
18. She controls satellite downlink power
22. Add P to get a professional
23. Become a regular reader of a magazine
25. Coding scheme for characters
26. Contest category for individuals (abbr.)
27. Selfish or greedy operator
29. Network organized around a central hub
31. Solder does this when hot enough
33. Deposited on antennas by winter storm
35. Prefix meaning "one"
38. Joins two ropes together
43. Radio messages
44. Preserved ancient item
45. Person that finds you the perfect QTH
46. First radio helper
47. Outer planet to be visited by recent satellite
49. The seventh continent (abbr.)
51. Historic times
53. Stand by (CW prosign)
55. Makes things possible with "able"
58. Person from OZ
60. Chances
63. Mobile antenna connector type
65. Most SW state in the Dakota Division
66. Prefix meaning "two"
67. Unit of length (abbr.)