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This week, your editor is prowling the hallowed halls of headquarters, having a happy hiatus hanging at HQ helping hams hurrying to heft handbooks honorably. That means YOU get to work on a puzzle whose theme touches on the many aspects of the ARRL. Hey, Hiram haunts his home!

1. Don't want to be one of these
4. A million or a thousandth of a henry
6. 100 entities gets you in this club
10. The person in charge of magazine content
12. What T in RST stands for
14. Unit of power (abbr)
16. Take a shot to avoid catching this
17. Contest magazine
18. An avid hobbyist
19. What hams copy
21. Most miniature Morse
22. Dash (prosign)
23. A laugh or a state
24. Person who guides students in the on-line CCE course
25. One of three in NY state
27. Dipole made with multiple parallel wires
28. Where you go after the safety belt breaks
29. The magic word in CW
30. Field strength (abbr)
31. The CD Repeater Directory displays repeaters overlaid on these
34. The Big Snitch
36. There's an outbound and an inbound
37. One of these over two letters makes it a prosign
38. Goes with mom and apples
39. Substitute semiconductor company
41. Get on this to transmit
43. Messaging system
45. How much change per degree
46. Represents a section
50. Often interfered with
51. Indicates closeness of a match
53. These show typical band usage
56. Assistant to 46 Across
58. Has both a Russian and American call
59. Below MF
61. Where contests are rounded up
63. Canadian maritime province (abbr)
64. Search for these on the ARRL Web site
67. Also in 50 Across (postal code)
68. Containing nothing
69. Ham radio's widest circulating magazine

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1. Efficient light
2. Show how something works
3. Member forever
4. ARRL arranges these with other organizations
5. What we do (abbr)
6. This person is in every month
7. HQ's state (abbr)
8. Radiosport
9. This old transmitter lives at HQ
11. Feed line (abbr)
13. Its prefix is
15. Interference from a commercial station
17. Short reminders
20. Shape of the antenna from which the ARRL logo is taken
21. Direction of this word (abbr)
23. Made it yourself! (abbr)
24. These are served by the ARRL
26. The ARRL publishes a directory of these
27. Restarts a ticker
29. A rounded hammer
30. VHF+ version of 6 Across
32. Prosign for "send everything after" again
33. This makes 19 Across perfect
34. Smallest of the 48 (postal code)
35. CW for something that belongs to you
38. The Intruder Watch mission
40. Tough metal (chemical symbol)
42. Add a B to get data and a D to get E
44. ARRL service for technical references
45. How you communicate digitally
47. Ham shack on the road
48. Switches between talking and listening
49. Takes 50 contacts
52. Flagship station
54. On the other side from USB
55. Heavy action on a paddle or bug
57. Emergency team
60. Exercises ability to measure frequency (abbr)
62. Where product specs are tested
64. Add O to get resistance
65. Takes cars across a waterway (abbr)
66. The weakest signal report you can give