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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler -- "Eclectic Electric #6"

    By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
    Contributing Editor
    November 2, 2005


    Just like that Halloween candy in your local trick-or-treaters bag, this quiz is a collection of bits and pieces from all across the ham radio spectrum. I hope you don't succumb to the urge to sneak one of those sweets - or peek at the answers!




    Across
    1. In your favor, hopefully
    4. Offer at auction
    6. Signs up again
    10. Measure of intelligence
    11. Slovenia's northern neighbor (prefix)
    12. Can't answer
    15. Poorly considered and rushed
    17. Home state of Paul Revere (postal abbr)
    19. Southern neighbor of 17 Across (postal abbr.)
    20. Affectionate way of saying "old"
    21. Our continent (abbr)
    22. The Show-Me State (postal abbr)
    23. Oklahoma and Florida both have one
    26. Company founded by David Sarnoff
    28. Most conductive metal (chem symb)
    29. Powered up
    30. Operate in order to educate or familiarize
    32. Equipment designer (abbr)
    34. Breaks or parts under stress
    35. The directions of lines of latitude
    36. Uncorrodable metal (abbr)
    37. Opposite of NW
    38. Abbreviation for solar radiation in propagation forecasts
    39. Small annoying insect
    41. Weather (abbr)
    42. That (CW abbr)
    44. Group of eight
    47. Trade group of electronics manufacturers (abbr)
    48. Russian Web URL suffix
    49. One of the maritime provinces (abbr)
    50. Items shipped with the DXpeditioners
    52. Rearrange to obscure
    54. Slang for working DX
    55. Logical complement to and
    56. Male article, add 's' to get female
    57. Gotta have both of these in the water
    60. Mechanisms by which radio signals travel
    62. Audio accessory manufacturer
    63. West of 22 Across
    64. Later (CW abbr)
    66. Western Canadian province (postal abbr)
    67. Naughty words
    68. Who gives amateur exams (abbr)
    69. And (CW abbr)

    Down

    1. Keep this topped off in the generator
    2. Removed from competition
    3. Distress signal
    4. An animal you don't want to visit at Field Day
    5. Simplest wire antenna
    6. Thin, stiff cylinder
    7. Designs electrical equipment (abbr)
    8. Prefix meaning "million trillion"
    9. Satellite that watches the sun
    13. Heavy component of amplifiers
    14. Parts of an antenna that radiate
    15. Civil defense emergency organization
    16. ARRL Field Organization office in charge of a section
    17. The north pole that moves
    18. Southernmost continent (abbr)
    21. Number (CW abbr)
    23. Successfully complete an exam
    24. Successive reflections from the ionosphere
    25. An all-digital frequency synthesizer (abbr)
    27. The collection of responses to test questions (two words)
    31. Type of wideband yagi design (abbr)
    33. Common type of timing circuit (abbr)
    39. Middle class of license
    40. Passes to a hamfest
    43. Waterproof cover
    45. Young scout
    46. 8760 of these in a year
    47. Time zone for the Hudson Division
    51. Computer-based thinking (abbr)
    53. Prune or cut off
    54. Vibrate
    58. Abbreviation for skyhook
    59. Organization that administers exams
    60. Type of broadband data system (abbr)
    61. Station that transmits bulletins (abbr)
    62. Homebrew (CW abbr)
    65. Same as clockwise (abbr)

    Solution


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