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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    February 8, 2008


    Aerial View


    From extensive to inexpensive, from stacked to hacked, from high-gain to no-pain, ham radio antennas come in every shape and size. This week’s puzzler should prompt cogitation of radiation.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. 10 kilogauss
    6. UA parliament
    10. Kludge
    14. Kind of socket or tube
    15. Ancient OA-lander
    16. Competent
    17. Improbable dream VHF/UHF antenna
    20. Achy, as after an antenna project
    21. Transceiver knob label
    22. Part connections
    23. Ckt.between IF and AF
    24. Suffix with bio- or proto-
    26. Loud speaker
    30. Eye part
    31. US hams do it every 10 years, usually
    32. "That's great, friend", on CW
    33. Be next to
    37. What rural hams fancy themselves?
    40. Feedline badness
    41. Baseball stats
    42. Symbol in coax specs
    43. Go out of your cell area
    44. Unidirectional dipole
    45. Where all good signals go, eventually?
    48. Late summer contest
    49. Tribander parts
    50. Kind of FET
    51. They have replaced tuning dials in modern rigs, often.
    55. Improbable dream HF antenna
    59. K, on phone
    60. Elser-Mathes Cup target
    61. Look of disdain
    62. One meaning of V
    63. Switch type
    64. They deliver power

    Down

    1. Narrowest tower sections, often
    2. EME signal
    3. Sirius, for one
    4. Emit coherent light
    5. Draft pick
    6. One's self, on CW
    7. Ampere, for one
    8. Lots and lots of Hz in the old days
    9. Word to a doctor
    10. Bugs, Roger, Peter, et. al.
    11. Garfield's middle name
    12. Copper often does it
    13. Enables, as a transmitter
    18. Kind of hunter, in radio
    19. Word of regret
    23. "See you ____ the log"
    24. Univ. teachers
    25. Kilo follower
    26. Not written
    27. W7-land city
    28. What this puzzle is about, for short
    29. Connectors named for their shape
    30. Italian yagi?
    32. One C per V
    33. BBs, e.g.
    34. E, to a non-ham?
    35. Encourage
    36. Bygone UA leader
    38. It glows amber
    39. Part
    43. Sometimes causes antenna failure
    44. Window part, where the feedline might come in
    45. Group of trees
    46. 5 wpm, 70 mph, etc.
    47. Eyeball benders
    48. Least good
    49. Gait faster than a walk
    50. QSLs often go via them (abbr.)
    51. Lead-ins to P
    52. Future ham, sometimes
    53. Became SK
    54. Switching semiconductors
    56. RX spec.
    57. Break, during a long contest, say
    58. Sig. src.

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