The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler
By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
May 8, 2007
“It’s That Time Again!”
Hams will soon be converging on an otherwise well-behaved and quiet midwestern city in a yearly festival (some say frenzy) of hamdom. It’s the Dayton Hamvention, of course! Even if you can’t go, you can enjoy this hamfest-huggin’ puzzle and you don’t even have to wait in line!
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Across
1. Look through a large number of small things
5. What English does from left to right
8. A seller that cheats
11. Precious old equipment
13. AM and TV stations
14. Live or operating
15. Integer multiples
17. Place of entry
19. Bill
21. Amplifier whose output is the transmitted signal (abbr)
22. Month of CQ WW SSB contest (abbr)
25. Handy for carrying purchases
26. What happens when 25 Across is overloaded
28. The last offer
29. A group of things sold as one unit
31. Added to the sales price
33. Too much current or power (abbr)
34. What most customers seem to do best
37. Works for any purchase
38. Prefix of hams in Iraq
39. Prefix of long, skinny SA country
40. Prefix of hams next door to Iraq
41. You have to get this from the FCC to operate in a non-standard way (abbr)
43. One piece of gear
45. Where most hamfest stuff has apparently been stored
46. These radios hold boats in place
48. Not mine (CW abbr)
49. Period in time when things were done a certain way
51. One section of a sales booth or stand
52. One thousandth of a liter (abbr)
53. Logarithmic unit of power (abbr)
55. The real reason we go to hamfests
56. The Great Lake that borders Dayton's state
58. Gotta make this while the sun shines
59. Where a superhet gets its gain (abbr)
60. Overly technical individual
62. Rural electric utility (abbr)
64. Get interested or animated
66. Type of tower guy wire (abbr)
67. Dimples
Down
1. Apology (CW abbr)
2. Abbreviation that provides and explanation (Latin)
3. Type of market that's the same as a hamfest
4. Prefix of Costa Rican hams
6. How money is made the old-fashioned way
7. Hamfest prize
8. Our regulatory agency
9. If it's too expensive, just say this
10. Attached to controls for convenience
12. Sometimes taken in payment
13. Make an offer
16. Seller's area
17. Where hamfest purchases often go
18. How steeply RF leaves an antenna (abbr)
20. In the past
21. Adjusts width of IF filtering (abbr)
23. Parts assembled by the buyer
24. Building in which Hamvention occurs
27. Prefix meaning "no longer"
30. Fine tuning adjustment
32. Abbreviation for telephone call
33. Home state to Dayton Hamvention
34. Rip
35. Ham position reporting system (abbr)
36. Sunflower state (postal code)
37. Our northern neighbor
38. Say this when the price is right
39. Place together as a unit
42. Smells bad when a transformer is overheated
44. Messages
45. Who should beware
47. This would be us
49. Type of backlight for LCD displays (abbr)
50. Often really "I want" (two words)
52. Small or miniscule
54. See ya later!
57. Abbreviation for a street or byway
58. Worn to prevent sunburn on the noggin
59. Many transistors in one package
61. The two fields of a radio wave
63. Prefix meaning to cause or promote
65. Size of a tee-shirt
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