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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By Chris Codella, W2PA
    Jully 11, 2008


    Famous Hams


    Some people are born hams some achieve ham radio licenses and some have ham radio thrust upon them. Or something like that.

    Printable PDF Version

    Across

    1. VU metro (not meter)
    6. Call to Bo-peep
    9. T.O.M.
    14. TN made rig
    15. Rear panel label
    16. 7X neighbor
    17. Used before flip tops
    19. More unwet
    20. Infrequent frame rate mode
    21. Major Armstrong, familiarly
    23. Wiring harness parts
    24. IT9 peak
    26. Prefix with -tuner
    28. Kind of drum
    31. Contact plating solution?
    36. Boatanchor unit
    37. Part of ARRL: Abbr.
    39. Enter
    40. Suffix with reson-
    42. In reserve
    44. Produces radiator supports
    45. Giving up
    47. GM monster place
    49. Viking partner
    50. Callsign of 31 across
    52. Overcome utterly
    54. First QTH?
    55. Hand (out)
    57. Small fight
    60. Field unit?
    62. Competent
    66. Loafed around
    68. Nonphysical, say
    70. Met show
    71. Feed lines to
    72. Partner of 9-across
    73. Rocking ham
    74. Hockey's Bobby
    75. DXpeditioner's instruction

    Down

    1. Manuals, slangily
    2. Times past
    3. Fuzz
    4. ARRL president, and president's grandson
    5. Rev. of out.
    6. Wound covers
    7. All over again
    8. Of a heart chamber
    9. Cap. unit
    10. Missile type
    11. Ancient WARC band?
    12. Prof. org. with many ham members
    13. Elser-Mathes Cup objective
    18. Poetic dusk
    22. Pushes, gently
    25. Leaves in a bag
    27. The one above six?
    28. Two or more yagis, say
    29. Do and so
    30. Tube terminal
    32. Gasket
    33. Possible Congo prefix
    34. ___ alcohol
    35. Malyj Vysotskij prefix
    38. Suffix with electro-
    41. Force-12 element fasteners, say
    43. More lethal
    46. Homer's neighbor
    48. Pre-ham?
    51. Int'l org. promoting learning
    53. What the shack might do with the amplifier on
    56. Crew tool
    57. QRS
    58. Between Oscar and Quebec
    59. Kind of antenna aimer
    61. A receiver annoyance, briefly
    63. Arrest
    64. 47-across is one
    65. Exuberance
    67. CW word
    69. Zone type

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