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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    April 11, 2008


    Encode-a-chrome


    This week's puzzle has a theme hidden within the puzzle itself. As you fill in the solution, the theme will emerge.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. Cluster cmd
    4. Tribander part
    8. *10MHz, with 30-down
    14. Grammy category
    15. Sushi fish (some may generate RF noise)
    16. Especially comfortable place for a DXpedition, say
    17. Words of understanding
    18. Radiation from a "cloud burner"
    19. EP city
    20. Early radio construction material
    22. Part of IARU (abbr.)
    24. 5Z
    25. Contender, e.g., for ARRL director
    27. Copies
    29. 160m luminary Perry
    30. Polar explorer, early radio user
    31. Early radio noise maker
    34. WAS item
    36. Charge opposite?
    37. Spectrum Defense ____
    38. With 40-across, a hint to solving the clues indicated with a *
    39. Paddle
    40. See 38-across
    41. Sky hooks, briefly
    42. Some HV paths
    43. Young's accounting partner
    44. Relative of cap. and ind.
    45. Bumpkin
    46. Wire, from 44-across, say
    47. Simple
    48. Conclusion
    51. Monastery head
    54. RF effect
    56. Fly high
    57. Flying high
    59. Used to stabilize a crystal
    61. Owed
    62. VHF antenna measurers?
    63. 59-across product
    64. Before, in verse
    65. *7MHz, with 30-down
    66. Some service hams
    67. Band condition influencer

    Down

    1. *21MHz, with 50-down
    2. Internet cry?
    3. What's needed after barefoot tower climbing?
    4. Doubled, it's a "net"
    5. "Recent Equipment"
    6. 50's Collins
    7. "Hey ... over here!"
    8. Crumb
    9. Stank
    10. Blown resistor remnants
    11. Norse goddess of fate
    12. *3.5MHz, with 30-down
    13. I-land island peak
    21. Mimeographs
    23. E, F and others
    26. ___-do-well
    28. Prefix with -selector
    30. *
    31. Microwave parts
    32. Some gates
    33. W6 summer time
    34. Kind of tissue
    35. Nearly always 9
    36. Electromagnetic, and others
    37. Coulombs per volt
    40. "It's ___ real!"
    42. Ether
    45. Prefix with -geneous
    46. Amplifier type
    47. Place to stay at the Hamvention, possibly
    48. Libya
    49. C2
    50. *See 1-down
    51. Ethereal
    52. *5.4MHz, with 30-down
    53. Kind of joint
    55. One V per mA
    58. UA 73
    60. Tfc. org.

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