By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
March 6, 2004
Licensing is in the air, with all the discussion about Morse Code testing and licensing structure and privileges. A lot of students are out there hitting the books and the Volunteer Examiners are getting the paperwork ready. Will you be trying for a license upgrade this year?
Ward
Silver, N0AX, authors--among numerous other things--the Amateur Radio Crossword
Puzzler, which appears twice a month on the ARRL Web site. He can be reached by
e-mail at n0ax@arrl.net or by surface mail
at Aetherworks Publishing, 22916 107th Ave NW, Vashon, WA, 98070.
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Across
1. To decipher Morse Code
4. Metric mass (abbr.)
6. Common queries (acronym)
8. To stop working is to stand ...
10. Community property owner's group (abbr.)
12. Controlled by radio (acronym)
13. Prosign meaning end of message
14. The event where tests are given
16. Study group led by a teacher
17. Orbits with ham radio (acronym)
19. A small amount
20. Most populous Caribbean U.S. posession (abbr.)
21. Prefix meaning "with"
22. Rarest of the Balkan entities (prefix)
23. A written exam
26. What happens to licenses after ten years
28. Put pen to paper
29. Energized
30. Image capture device (acronym)
31. To supervise or manage an exam
33. Guides for conduct
36. Single frequency audio
38. Even with low sunspots, DX ..!
39. State with the first primary (abbr.)
41. Largest ham event in June (abbr.)
42. Powerful explosive (abbr.)
44. Temporary record of passing an exam (acronym)
46. Unannounced attendance (two words)
48. Dance from KH6
49. Polaris is the North ....
50. Fibbed
51. Personally selected call sign
53. Not there
54. Method for managing emergencies
56. The only dumb question is one not .....
57. Reactivates
Down
1. Possible selection
2. ARRL Field Organization monitor (abbr.)
3. The best test outcome
5. Book that aids a student
6. FCC licensee ID (acronym)
7. Newest Morse prosign
8. This makes perfect
9. Test takers
11. Dreams come true when you wish upon this (two words)
13. Most popular material for building beam antennas (chemical symbol)
15. One of two continents entirely in the Western Hemisphere (abbr.)
16. Ship's sailors
18. Beantown baseball team
20. After noon (abbr.)
22. Metal used for galvanizing
24. Complete
25. Not required (acronym)
27. Group of test questions
30. Computer display (acronym)
31. Sharp implement used to record test answers
32. Find out later (acronym)
33. Sign up
34. Permit
35. Posture between prone and erect
37. Exams available over the Internet (two words)
40. ..MS is a protocol used for meteor scatter QSOs
41. Long-term fight between families
43. Announcement of an event
45. Examine for correctness
46. Electromagnetic energy travels as a ....
47. If you fail, you might do this
52. Electrical discharge
53. Stores information on your computer (acronym)
54. Not out
55. Opposite of NE
