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By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
March 16, 2006
If at some point in your ham career you stick or stuck push-pins in a map to show the locations of your contacts, you're in popular company. I'm sure many of our shack walls bear the pointillistic profile of the United States in a plethora of pin pricks. Thus we celebrate our love of all things cartographic with pen-pushing puzzle for cartophiles.
Across
1. Divides the world into north and south
5. Prefix of southernmost North American country
7. Abbreviation for volume control
10. Equipment for visual and audio presentations (abbr.)
11. Steer back to the desired path
13. Find or hold to a suitable path
16. Male operator (CW abbr.)
17. Philippine Islands prefix
18. Mixer input signal (abbr.)
19. Population count
23. Chicago's time zone (abbr.)
26. Relative position within a cycle
28. Signals that circumnavigate the Earth (abbr.)
30. Line of equal elevation
32. Indexing marker
34. After ready and set
35. Teletype (abbr.)
36. Map used as a basis for other maps
37. Reference meridian
41. Group of eight
42. Satellite navigation system
44. The international line
46. Complement to AND
47. Spherical map
50. Prefix for Tehran
51. Respond to magnetic fields
53. Complement to column
54. Rectangular coordinate system
55. Canadian Maritime province (postal abbr.)
56. Comes in nautical and imperial flavors
57. Opposite of tap
58. Map that shows atmospheric conditions
62. Goes with cetera
63. Shortest possible CW country prefix
64. Synonymous with area
67. Long-term characteristics of 58 Across
68. Metric unit of distance
Down
2. A map rangle
3. Identifying label
4. Auroral shape
5. 1 Across goes through this South American country (prefix)
6. Two of these on a spinning planet
7. Amateur emergency organization
8. Attracted to magnets (chemical symbol)
9. Coordinate system used on maps
12. Expense
14. VHF sister to DXCC
15. Map showing geographical features
19. One who makes maps
20. On the air meeting
21. Area occupied by a city
22. Description of map symbols
24. Origin of information
25. Westernmost state in 4th district (postal code)
27. Small, crude house
29. Between days and months
31. Chronological division of the Earth (two words)
33. Between linear and push-pull
37. Frozen dinner item easy to eat at the rig (two words)
38. Add D to make the Morse letter E
39. Same as 62 Across
40. US Government agency in charge of maps
43. Secure pipes and masts (compound word)
45. Photograph taken from above the Earth
46. Operator (abbr.)
48. Determine your location on a map
49. Type of Top Band receiving antenna
52. Masterful business degree
54. Good (CW abbr.)
58. Australian peer to the ARRL
59. Switches between transmit and receive
60. Latin abbreviation meaning "as an example"
61. High ridge around a crater
63. Dorothy's aunt
65. Austrian prefix
66. Son with the same name (abbr.0)
