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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    December 05, 2008


    Phunetics


    Standard operating practice can lead to non-standard interpretation.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. How puzzle ends
    6. Suffix with hard- or soft-
    10. Radio personality K2ORS
    14. Improvised
    15. Suffix with radi- or modul-
    16. Put in stitches
    17. Whinny
    18. Sailor's rum drink
    19. Partner of FIGS
    20. Outfit for dancing?
    23. Dozen dits
    24. Mo. for VHF QP
    25. Legislate
    29. Mo. for ID, OK, VA and WI QP's
    30. HZ pilgrimage
    32. US Army station
    33. TA bigwig
    37. Barren
    39. Newington bar order?
    42. NE to ZL from W0
    43. They got 11 in '58
    44. Tack on
    45. Nav. rank
    46. Classic rcvr maker from IL
    48. Celebrate
    50. Sat. type
    51. Flex's
    55. Shakespearean wireless dance?
    59. Maker of the "seven drifty three"
    62. RSGB is a member
    63. W5 capital last name
    64. Function on an HT, say
    65. ___ Kringle
    66. Classic vinyl
    67. Combustible heap
    68. If follower, to a programmer
    69. C's low in the bands

    Down

    1. Unchecked items on a DXCC list, for example
    2. Brainstorms
    3. Adds water to latex, say
    4. DXing LIDs, slangily
    5. See 58 down
    6. DL opera composer
    7. Take ___ (travel)
    8. Tripod place
    9. "Cogito ___ sum"
    10. OP lead-ins
    11. DXCC item (abbr.)
    12. Hams are on it
    13. Nets make it up
    21. KH6 is in it, but not for DXCC
    22. Celebrate
    26. Normal operator state in a contest, hopefully
    27. Provide food for
    28. Low cards
    29. HK0 place
    30. HHS, predecessor
    31. Fire remnant
    33. Route to VU from W9, e.g.
    34. Tube cap
    35. Test, on 7.002 MHz, perhaps
    36. Hardly a beauty
    37. T
    38. Mode on 7.178 MHz, probably
    40. W6 area net
    41. Sm. radios
    46. Decline
    47. Jersey call
    49. Moldova prefix
    50. Large-eyed lemur
    51. Lifted, so to speak
    52. Crushes, as in a contest
    53. Scoundrel
    54. Flower towers?
    56. Phone op's need
    57. Countess's husband
    58. With 5 down, ultra short wave moonbounce signal?
    59. Brainwave radio?
    60. Like yagi elements in winter
    61. Shack on wheels

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