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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    January 02, 2009


    Vintage Beginnings


    A return to the vintage ham radio theme of last December – this time with an embedded sub-theme.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. Diploma word
    6. Tiny PCB parts
    10. Junkbox item, say
    14. Like a nerd
    15. Grid ____ resistor
    16. All over again
    17. Irish prefix
    18. ____-VOX
    19. '60s Novice transmitter maker
    20. Heathkit Novice rig
    22. VU4 island
    24. Azimuth 90
    26. What a lid is, for example
    27. Best Yagi spacing
    31. Pick up, on the bands, say
    34. OE peaks
    35. 4S7 group
    40. This puzzle's theme
    43. "Get lost!"
    44. What a poor CW filter does
    45. SU river
    46. Beams, towers, amplifier - to a DXer, say
    48. You feed an ant. with it, very generally speaking
    52. VU royal YL
    54. ER land
    57. Popular Novice rig (and tube) of the 50's
    62. Like Darth Vader
    63. 2006 contest held in PY
    65. Label on a wattmeter
    66. Give up
    67. Unlucky number, in Rome
    68. Plantain lily
    69. New Englander hams
    70. ____-Uda
    71. Hex

    Down

    1. Took to court
    2. Windows alternative
    3. Amps per Volt
    4. Cooper maker
    5. High points
    6. Kills, as a dragon
    7. Restroom sign
    8. Packet payload
    9. RF effect
    10. Song of praise
    11. JA cartoon art
    12. Restore a PS, say
    13. Drake Novice transmitter
    21. Tit for ___
    23. Physicist Paul
    25. Ponderous one
    27. Drift, as an odor
    28. Hip bones
    29. P5-land (abbr.)
    30. To be, in old Rome
    32. Duck: (in DL)
    33. "Got it!"
    35. Natural ground system
    36. FIGS partner
    37. VE3 lake
    38. PJ title
    39. Ceramic insulators, say
    41. Sierra follower
    42. Phi follower
    46. Preceeds a 'J'
    47. Halves of thirds
    48. AC-1 maker
    49. Group of 13
    50. Trombone part
    51. What an amplifier in standby does
    53. Char. code
    55. Z lead-ins
    56. Opera solo
    58. Quad element
    59. QSL mgr's expectation
    60. Part of IARU (abbr.)
    61. Controlled a Novice's freq., once
    64. Welding type - was heliarc, once

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