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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
    August 4, 2006


    "Music of the (Iono)Spheres"


    Many hams either play or enjoy music, but how many have stopped to consider how many terms are found in both? Quite a few, as this quiz illustrates! Many words do dual duty for both musician and radio aficionado. You may find yourself humming along as you work out this week's puzzle!

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    Across

    1. Low audio frequencies
    4. Rhythm or display
    8. Holds an instrument or a radio
    11. Prefix meaning "no longer"
    12. Identity or a famous doctor
    13. One entry in a list
    15. Cartesian coordinates
    16. Between La and Do or strong metal (chemical symbol)
    17. Measures volts (abbr)
    18. Plucked to make sound or holds up antennas
    20. Hypnotic state
    22. Time zone between CST and AST
    23. Coffee holder
    24. Big music town and ARRL section
    27. Reversing current
    28. Greet or laugh
    30. DX ..
    31. If you're too loud at the concert
    33. A hit in a new genre or frequency separator
    37. Hold down
    39. Frequency determining circuits
    40. Transcendental ratio
    41. Make it up or improvise (two words)
    42. Change key or add information
    44. From low to high frequency
    47. Belarus prefix
    48. Used in the sax and early PL encoders
    50. City by the bay (abbr)
    51. Learn by practicing
    52. Going (CW abbr)
    53. Belongs to you (CW abbr)
    54. Path over which both antennas are visible (abbr)
    55. Switches the antenna in a transceiver
    57. Source of inspiration or to consider
    61. Not paid for yet
    63. Emphasize or non-native language characteristic
    65. Person who signs off on tower plans
    66. Unmodified or not man-made
    69. Powered up
    70. First colony to become a state (postal code)
    71. Model prefix for Hallicrafters receivers
    72. Energetic or maximum power level
    73. Difference in pitch or time

    Down

    1, Sum and difference of frequencies
    2. Your editor's favorite suffix
    3. Syncopated music or code
    4. Display or build a prototype
    5. What keeps everything from happening at once
    6. Phoned home
    7. Stop playing or working
    9. Line around which something spins
    10. Electronic device that generates frequencies
    14. Big Sky country (postal code)
    16. Greek letter used to denote time
    19. Instrument or sound storage device
    21. Used to measure power in a waveform
    25. Off key or by mistake
    26. Unauthorized recording or transmission
    27. Stand by (CW prosign)
    29. Calculates voltage drop
    30. Upside down chords or temperatures
    32. Budapest prefix
    34. Clockwise rotation (abbr)
    35. Simplest type of flip-flop
    36. Wind instrument or an antenna
    38. Stable capacitor
    41. Impedance matching device (abbr)
    42. Evaluate numerically
    43. Amplify or enhance
    45. Audible frequencies (abbr)
    46. Prefix meaning "of the Earth"
    49. Used for sight-reading and found on screws
    54. Permit
    56. Timing circuit
    58. Prefix meaning "not"
    59. Lead performer or heavenly body
    60. Type of dance or holder of wound rope
    62. Grow larger
    64. Prefix meaning "opposite"
    65. Device that stores music files (abbr)
    67. Where the antennas go
    68. Provides wireless network connection (abbr)

    Solution


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