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By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
September 29, 2003
The radio club is as old as radio. Maybe older, since many clubs were formed in order to figure out how to build a radio! They're the social backbone of Amateur Radio. Are you a club member? Bet you can't join just one! Here is a puzzle to get clubby with between meetings.
Ward "Grand Poo-Bah" 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. British equivalent of OM
3. To direct the proceedings
7. An uninteresting person
11. To be called for publicly
13. The original prize for a Clean Sweep
14. Operator (abbr.)
15. One step from president
16. Hear ... hear ...!
17. That which is picked
19. Achieved victory
20. The person giving the featured program
24. Between soprano and tenor
25. Imbedded
27. From (CW abbr.)
28. Formal meeting record
31. I think, therefore I ...
32. A sheepish antenna
33. Big contest in November (abbr.)
34. Group that leads a club
37. Informal record of events
38. You're (CW abbr.)
39. Prefix that means "no longer"
40. One-thousandth of a meter (abbr.)
42. List of members
46. Famous inventor
48. Large ham radio retail chain (acronym)
49. Weight of one cc of water
50. Impedance matcher (acronym)
51. Selected by the members
53. Rules that govern a club
54. Adapter that connects three cables
55. Moonbounce (acronym)
57. Award without usual prerequisites
58. Fine Business (CW abbr.)
Down
1. A public meeting
2. Has the largest state QSO party
3. Peak sideband power (acronym)
4. Read (abbr.)
5. Rotate rapidly
6. Regular payments to support a club
7. Intermissions
8. On-the-air monitor
9. Wrote the book on order
10. Dorothy's aunt
12. Obtained
13. An uncontested victory
15. Offer services for free
18. Island
21. To have a cool and calm bearing
22. Group with a specific function
23. Count these in an election
24. Terminate a meeting
26. Between north and south
29. A dipole oriented N/S radiates best this way
30. The matters to be discussed at a meeting
31. Continent east of South America (abbr.)
33. In the company of friends
35. To and ...
36. Receive (abbr)
41. A formal participant in a club
43. Exchange of money for ownership
44. Keystroke to back up or stop (abbr.)
45. To issue a command
47. A group of assistants
49. Good evening (CW abbr.)
51. Shortest three-letter CW call sign suffix
52. Two thousand pounds
56. Unit of current (abbr.)
