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By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
August 31, 2007
Nothing compares to a full-blown, all-out mobile run for your state’s QSO party or to activate some rare counties! Hours are spent poring over maps to find the most effective route and fighting indecision over which will be quicker. There’s always the risk of the dreaded construction delay and the exhilaration of following your instincts and coming out exactly where you wanted to go. Before the great late-summer weather is lost, top off the tanks with this puzzle!
Across
1. Records contacts
3. Steep terrain
12. How to get to the top
14. Amateur messaging system
15. RF connector
16. Post-skunk exclamation
17. Gets you across the river
20. Sum (abbr)
21. Count of solar pox
22. Removable data storage (abbr)
23. Best kind of mobiling food (two words)
25. Grand scene
27. Type of pliers
28. Height above the ocean (abbr)
30. Steep or nearly vertical
31. Greek symbol for sum
33. Alright
35. Arid lands
36. Used to plan the trip
39. Slippery on the road
42. Vacuum tube element (abbr)
45. Keeps an antenna in line (abbr)
46. The control for volume (abbr)
48. What your copilot does
50. Work a lot of stations quickly
52. Non-ham emergency radio group
54. Video mode
55. Calls in a pileup
56. Resistance of an inductor
57. Portable lodging
59. Not sure where to go
60. To move by car
61. Gives instructions on the road
64. Connects to another road
66. Meaning of SK
67. Comfy mobile vehicle
69. The path planned or taken
71. One solar trip (abbr)
72. Didn't buy (two words)
73. Unit of distance
Down
1. Research facility
2. Persons who lead
4. Single
5. World time (abbr)
6. VE1's postal code
7. Higher than
8. The biggest highways
9. Raleigh is the capital (postal code)
10. Provides constant power
11. One of these clobbers the bands (two words)
13. Keeps the road safe (abbr)
18. Disruption from a radio
19. Vertical antenna abbreviation
20. Good for hams, bad for drivers
21. Unexpected obstruction
23. Instructions for getting somewhere
24. Medical caregiver (abbr)
25. The big knob (abbr)
26. Most popular mobile antenna
27. Program that simulates a pileup
29. Administers an ARRL section
32. Exists
34. 1.6 of these in 73 across
37. A sharp guy
38. When radio waves hit a building
40. Rural area
41. The usual mobile vehicle
43. Equipment for sounds or pictures (abbr)
44. Used in thermometers (chem symbol)
45. Gets you to out of the way locations
47. A vehicle vehicle
48. Relay position that's usually connected (abbr)
49. "Destinated"
50. Ill-considered
51. Hudson Division state (postal code)
53. Unfamilar or non-member
55. Road rooms
58. Rolling supports
60. Gain with respect to a dipole
62. Begin traveling
63. Lock on a keyboard to type numerals
65. Web coordinates
68. State north of 9 Down (postal code)
70. Central American country (prefix)
© Copyright ARRL 2007
