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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    August 15, 2008


    Alphas and IOTAs


    Greek letters? Yes, but they mean other things to hams.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. Swiped
    6. GM OM
    10. Tuvalu IOTA
    14. KH6 IOTA
    15. If's partner (to a programmer)
    16. Get one's ducks in ___
    17. __nito
    18. Stage part
    19. Poor QTH, say
    20. Foot covered?
    22. Means justifiers
    23. Amplifier knob
    24. Softrocks, e.g.
    26. Murphy, e.g.?
    30. OA denizens, once
    33. Mother ___
    34. W4 Beach
    36. Xmtr pwr plus all following dBs
    37. 3B6 IOTA
    39. 6Y IOTA
    41. Where you might get a 5-down - or maybe five, 5-down's down
    42. November honorees
    44. Multiple Elvises?
    45. F capital bisector
    47. Carefully did 23-across, with the big knob probably.
    49. CW
    51. Hero
    52. They're turned on by a positive base
    54. Two cartons of ice cream?
    60. Kind of IC
    61. Word often found in IOTA names
    62. Possible Northern UK prefix
    63. IRE descendent, in 1963
    64. Zig or zag
    65. Where the HV goes
    66. Western DL river
    67. Blunders
    68. Church assembly

    Down

    1. Narrow opening
    2. Trig function
    3. How many times a grid can be grossly overdriven
    4. XW land
    5. Brewski, to a ham?
    6. Pacific
    7. Zoomed in
    8. LA city
    9. The 18 and 21 MHz bands?
    10. See 41-across
    11. What a K2 can do
    12. Harry Chapin's callsign?
    13. Is in the red
    21. Power problem
    25. Result of key down amplifier, possibly
    26. Smooth transition
    27. Borders both VU and A4
    28. RTTY char
    29. G rule in VU
    31. (The amp.) made an untoward noise
    32. Hot Springs and others
    33. Manipulates a key
    35. Small pet
    38. Opposite of amp.
    40. Worked ___ Continents
    43. Drinker
    46. More meddlesome
    48. Types of gears
    50. North Cook IOTA prefix
    52. Cloud burner sig.
    53. "Guilty," e.g.
    55. ___-friendly
    56. Easter flower
    57. Possibly needed to purchase an IC-7800
    58. Not taken in by
    59. The last one for DXCC #1, say

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