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By Chris Codella, W2PA
January 02, 2009
A return to the vintage ham radio theme of last December – this time with an embedded sub-theme.

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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