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By Chris Codella, W2PA
September 11, 2009
The minimum has lasted long enough. Gimmie the spots!

Across
1. Eight furlongs
5. Propagation predictor, with solar
9. Early ham technology
14. 7700 maker
15. Network, especially in I-land
16. Blender setting
17. Solar WX org.
18. Kit maker of the 1960s
19. Poem of lament
20. Propagation predictors, with 58 down
22. OX dir. from XE
24. Formerly known as
25. Chop (off)
26. Solar minimum result
28. Fed. fiscal agency
31. "Encore!"
33. 144 MHz
34. Phoned
36. Deteriorates
38. Post det. stage
42. Hams eagerly await it
45. 1970s sat.
46. Garbage barge
47. "I'm ___ your tricks!"
48. Checks in check ins
50. Calls from NJ or NY
52. What some amateurs are, professionally
53. The 2009 sun, mostly
57. W7 ARRL sect.
59. 440 MHz region, say
60. Prefix, opposite of 63 down
61. Early receiver maker
65. Wanderer
67. Generate RF sig.
69. Handle
70. Nonsensical
71. Tropospheric propagation path
72. Connectors with shells
73. FD abodes
74. Ckts. for CW
75. Put in stitches
Down
1. Subcompact
2. Desktop feature
3. PA front panel label
4. In-box contents
5. C6 city
6. KH6 rings
7. GMT replacer
8. Veracruz prefix
9. Indy place
10. YA cent
11. Hara, for example
12. Superhet alternative
13. Sent CW
21. It may follow a dot
23. ___ King Cole
26. Picks up, on the air
27. Fab
28. Shamu, for one
29. W0 Clinic
30. Locking connectors
32. Column crossers
35. Sparkle
37. KC4 WX
39. Code for code
40. Receiver rear panel label
41. Con cons
43. Rules out
44. 33 dBm
49. K7UGA, once: Abbr.
51. Ant. measurement
53. 56 down measurement
54. Second SS weekend
55. GD isle
56. See 53 down
58. Types of 20 across
61. Micro micro
62. Antenna measurement
63. Prefix, with directional
64. What crank-up sections do when cranked-down
66. Dip. or Inv-V, e.g.
68. Propagation condx indicato
© Copyright ARRL 2009