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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By H. Ward Silver, NØAX
    January 22, 2008


    Cross-Modulation


    I decided to throw some electronic symbols on the crossword grid this week and see if I could find some workarounds for them. Thanks to ARRL Web puzzle partner W2PA for the inspiration - I hope this one is as fun to work as it was to generate!

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. Impassive
    6. Spurious splatter
    13. Makes molecules
    14. Here I am!
    15. Telephone (CW abbr)
    16. Province for VO1 (abbr)
    18. Searched with "Vista"
    21. Adjustments
    25. Tease
    26. CW for "Stand By"
    27. Around the world or off the moon
    29. Transfers data on the Internet
    30. Nevertheless, it moves!
    32. Capacitor loss factor
    35. Partner to WPA section
    36. Unwanted products
    37. Digital voice equipment maker
    39. What's left over from gross
    40. Type of phono connector
    41. First all-transistor logic family
    42. Wipes out the HF bands
    44. See ya!
    47. Universal method (abbr)
    48. Tool
    50. Unrecorded contact (abbr)
    53. Forever (abbr)
    54. Engineer that signs tower drawings (abbr)
    55. World time
    56. Halves of the day (three words)
    58. Video line
    60. AMSAT designator
    61. Antenna switching relay (abbr)
    62. Clear night
    67. Take quickly
    70. Small frequency adjustment (two words)
    71. Rover operation

    Down

    1. CW for "End of Message"
    2. Volunteer experts on technical subjects (abbr)
    3. Common contraction
    4. Electromotive force
    5. Radio wave (abbr)
    6. CW for double dash
    7. Unlicensed radio service
    8. Japanese radio maker
    9. Reduced prices
    10. Prefix of equatorial country
    11. Band watcher
    12. Home state to Ten-Tec
    17. Uses the prefix LU
    18. Province for VE6's
    19. Right away (abbr)
    20. Province for VY2
    21. Not us
    22. Continent for Zone 37 (abbr)
    23. Nautical speed (abbr)
    24. 6-meter propagation mode (two words)
    28. How the ham gets to the antenna
    31. Has rungs
    33. Another name for radio equipment
    34. Preceeded 41 Across
    37. Abbreviation for ham radio
    38. Base-8 (abbr)
    42. Holds something up
    43. Something
    45. Wobbly knees on the tower
    46. Prefix meaning "electrical"
    49. Mobile antenna mount
    51. Quick Internet texting
    52. One input to a mixer
    55. Prefix meaning "not" or "reverse"
    57. Hard to work
    59. Inhabitant of A4, A6, A7, and A9
    62. Western ARRL section (abbr)
    63. Tough, brittle metal (chemical symbol)
    64. Coldest continent (abbr)
    65. Parent of S5, 9A, E7, and Z3
    66. Magnetic metal (chemical symbol)
    67. CW greeting early in the day
    68. Prefix meaning "two"
    69. Northeasternmost state (postal code)

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