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It’s Friday – the clock hits zero zulu. Thousands of signals suddenly crowd the airwaves. Seemingly dead bands come to life. Sun spots? No, not yet. It must be a contest weekend! Friendly competition on the airwaves is the theme of this week's puzzle.

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Across

1. Radiation pattern part
5. Contest off-time ender, possibly
10. The "Olympics" of contests
14. IOTA item
15. Unusual object
16. "Long ____" (DX)
17. VE8 mobile?
18. Hammerin' Hank
19. 1091 using 44-across
20. An advantage of being weak?
23. In early radio, some rotated and some didn't
24. Foot part
25. Wayward circuit paths
28. Knight neighbor
30. 3W holiday
33. QTH on the range
34. 160 meter Stew
35. The one with QTC
36. Sheltered, when /MM
37. They don't count, and may count against you
38. CW parts
39. Plating material
40. Typewriters (in ham speak)
41. Military cap
42. The only CW many people know
43. One way to stand by
44. Abbreviated figs. (abbr.)
45. AMSAT launch partner
46. Currency used by 45-across, mostly
47. Predatory contesting?
55. EI-land, in EI-speak
56. VQ9 first name
57. They make the 45, sometimes for big guns
58. Western competing org.
59. 3:1 dash to dot ratio, say
60. "Yikes!"
61. Biblical verb
62. Prefix with -cotta
63. Xtal filter replacements

Down

1. Daffy Duck's programming language?
2. LA city
3. A fuse maybe did this
4. Many hams also have one
5. Bidirectional flow
6. KH6-fests
7. June VHF QSO Party sponsor
8. Funny one
9. Non-op hams at 10-across stations
10. Large cetacean
11. Suffix with glitte- or lite-
12. Twiddle the big knob
13. Yaesu front panel marking
21. Contesters try to maximize it
22. 21-down, for a first-time contester?
25. 'Test results figs.
26. Prefix with centric or sphere
27. A band sometimes does it at dawn
28. CQ answer
29. Valuable minerals
30. Region net for NNJ and others
31. Gourmand
32. NAQP, CQWW and others, briefly
34. Push-___
37. Response to a contest exchange, say
38. Took an alternate route
40. Catchall abbr.
41. QSL handler, slangily
44. Vaulted roof
45. Construct, as a tower
46. "Nevermore" quote quoter, informally
47. Transmit
48. Kit maker, once
49. Ominous noises from the amp, maybe
50. Assistant
51. At no time, poetically
52. Holiday drinks
53. OM in G-land
54. High V points on a dipole

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