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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By H. Ward Silver, NØAX
    January 25, 2008


    Eclectic Electric #15


    Have you ever noticed that in an unfamiliar context a familiar word can take on entirely new meanings? Or can be barely recognizable? That’s one of the more enjoyable aspects of a crossword puzzle--seeing old ideas in a new way. You might find a few of those in this week’s crossword. Be sure to keep an open mind as you solve this one!

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    Across

    1. Tries to turn the antennas
    4. Protocol used by mobile phones
    8. Radio service interleaved with GMRS
    11. Greenland's prefix
    12. Must be exhausted
    13. Another label for the volume knob
    14. Beam heading to Bouvet from Boston
    15. An echo that made it home (abbr)
    17. Attempt to contact
    18. Invisible light
    19. Keying speed (abbr)
    20. Pacific possession prefix
    21. Uncoated wire
    22. Heat to temper
    23. Shortest 1-by-3 suffix
    24. Complementary RS232 signal to RTS
    25. The magic band
    26. Holder of an advanced degree
    27. Threaded fastener
    30. Rectangular receive antenna design
    31. Boredom from poor propagation
    33. Mobile from the air
    34. Hamfest financial friend
    36. Tokyo prefix
    37. A clockwise turn (abbr)
    38. Staffed for a competition
    39. C will do on CW
    40. Popular Web browser (abbr)
    41. Little alien
    42. Prosign for end of message
    43. Map maker
    46. Weight (abbr)
    47. Suffix that means you passed your Extra
    48. Where a superhet's gain is found
    49. Didn't work when purchased (abbr)
    51. A helper (abbr)
    53. Greeting from Down Under
    54. Length of radio signals (abbr)
    56. Number (abbr)
    57. Transmit
    59. Another name for a variable capacitor
    61. A very long time
    63. Protective tubes for cables or wires
    65. CD drive able to both read and write (abbr)
    66. Transistor's current gain
    67. Manufacturer of replacment semiconductors
    68. Drag home

    Down

    1. Made a contact
    2. Between past and future
    3. Long distance contacts
    4. Burn to a crisp
    5. Remove or erase
    6. A hostile type of software
    7. Device that matches impedance (abbr)
    8. Method for teaching the code
    9. Higher frequency than audio
    10. Form of waveguide signals
    14. Thin sliver of wood
    16. Items that don't pass the test (two words)
    17. Compute the answer
    18. Overhear a conversation
    19. Award for all fifty
    22. Complement to dc
    27. One component of solder (chemical symbol)
    28. Smallest New England state (postal code)
    29. Display that shows scans of spectrum
    32. ARISS agency
    34. Prize for achievement
    35. A doctor or a state (postal code)
    37. Cable that doesn't bend
    44. Number of contacts per unit of time
    45. Opposite of wide
    46. Good to have near antennas
    50. Unity
    52. Measure of solar activity (abbr)
    53. Good (CW abbr)
    54. Form of radio energy
    55. An echo that took a while
    58. Makes the Viking antenna tuners
    59. Animal friend
    60. Time during the summer (abbr)
    62. Hit your thumb with the hammer
    63. Continental home to ZP, 8R, P4
    64. English (abbr)

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