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By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
December 4, 2004
Isn't it fun to go for a drive with your trusty mobile rig? I love heading out with a book of maps and the logbook trying to find those elusive "magic" spots. This week's puzzle is all about mobile operation and its ins and outs. See you from that rare grid, maybe?
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Across
1. An antenna driver
4. Mishandle or mess up
7. Used to fill the tank
9. A poor spot for radio
10. Stalling for time
12. A French friend
13. Where the vehicle stays
17. An attenuator
19. Repair
22. Slang for a million
24. Light (abbr.)
25. Coax connector prefix
27. Positive
30. Combines two bands
32. Assists the teacher (abbr.)
33. Assigns prefixes
35. Account (abbr.)
37. Insulating material
38. Desirable lines
40. Round antenna
42. Add to Viking and get a tuner
46. Independent (abbr.)
47. Best spot for a mobile antenna
50. Separates the passenger and
engine compartments
54. Impedance matcher (abbr.)
55. ARES team leader (abbr.)
56. Gain antenna manufacturer
57. Runs the alternator
60. Causes interference from paths
62. Computer (abbr.)
64. Hit a bump
66. Powered
67. On the floor of the vehicle
69. Grow older
70. At each end of the vehicle
71. Oxidization of steel
72. No meters like these meters
Down
1. Propagation hop
2. Where mobiles operate
3. Long, flexible antenna
4. Rapid volume or strength
variation
5. Add these two letters to change
"crack" into a noise
6. On the windshield
8. Type of mount
11. What we are
14. Signal relayer
15. Height in the air
16. Fake or substitute
18. While or in the manner of
20. Every bit
21. Color
23. Original country of S5, 9A,
T9, and Z3 (prefix)
26. Common
28. World time (abbr.)
29. Opposite of 9 Across, best
spot for radio
30. Two-band antenna
31. If the engine won't run
34. Central African Republic
(prefix)
36. Small Canadian DX entity
prefix
38. Loads the antenna
39. Abbreviation for both city and
state
41. To leave or go
43. Energized
44. In the absence of
45. From (CW abbr.)
48. Country of Macchu Piccu
(prefix)
49. Protective component
51. Three basic types of
components (abbr.)
52. Caused by the alternator
53. Charge to maintain voltage
58. Separated by San Francisco Bay
from SF section
59. Pull
60. Large unruly group
61. The peak
62. Afternoon (abbr.)
63. Passenger vehicle
65. Organized on-the-air group
68. Thanks! (CW abbr.)
