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    The Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzler

    By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
    March 15, 2005


    "You've Got Mail!"


    Can you imagine the days before email when we had to use a machine to strike a cloth soaked in waxy ink, forcing it against a sheet of paper? Or worse, laboriously drag a writing instrument across the paper, character by lonely character? Oh, the inhumanity? Life is different these days, by far, with email connecting us electronically. How much do you know about email? Puzzle on, Garth!

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    Across

    1. Hostile angry email content
    5. Simplest text format
    8. Unusual
    11. Transfer a program to memory to run
    13. Send a copy also
    14. Person applying a program
    15. Open and look at
    17. Roger's companion
    19. Next door to Latvia (prefix)
    20. Angular distance from the horizon (abbr.)
    21. Mark or change
    23. Connected
    26. Fi or Max
    27. Smallest of the 48 (abbr.)
    28. Occupied
    29. And so on (abbr.)
    31. Put together to send
    34. Go ahead only (CW prosign)
    35. Between VT and ME (abbr.)
    37. Two components of RF
    38. Email replaced these
    40. Characters that make up the message
    42. From (CW prosign)
    43. Our continent (abbr.)
    45. Net master (abbr.)
    47. Send on
    51. Prevent or stop
    53. Where a receiver's gain stages lie (abbr.)
    54. Prototype program for show
    56. Closing identification
    59. You're shouting in this case
    62. Non-volatile data storage (abbr.)
    63. Skyhook (abbr.)
    64. One of the Maritime provinces (abbr.)
    65. Soft, conductive metal (chemical symbol)
    66. Type of malware
    68. Reproduce
    70. Used in the old days with ink
    72. Store
    76. Respond to
    77. Metal that rusts (chemical symbol)
    78. Unwanted email

    Down

    1. Device or program that protects a computer
    2. Chicken or mode
    3. Person that approves content
    4. Spanish prefix
    6. Your identity at a bank or data service
    7. Symbols that represent data or programs
    8. Program that runs the computer (abbr.)
    9. Removed
    10. Not wet
    12. Don't drink or else you'll be cited for this (abbr)
    14. Prefix meaning single
    16. Top-notch or highly trained
    18. The network and computer department (abbr.)
    22. Cubical random number generator
    24. This cat was an early Web surfer
    25. The most easterly US ARRL Division (abbr.)
    28. Break (CW prosign)
    30. Spelling and call sign testers
    32. That (CW abbr.)
    33. Between a minute and a day (abbr.)
    36. Language that defines Web pages
    39. Measure of signal versus noise (abbr.)
    41. Example (abbr.)
    44. Destination
    46. Type of company (abbr.)
    48. Non-profit company email suffix
    49. Australian peer to ARRL (abbr.)
    50. When Jill came tumbling
    51. Rejection of email
    52. The key to get out
    55. Computer designers (abbr.)
    57. Not doing anything
    58. Month of Sweepstakes (abbr.)
    60. Oscillator tuned with inductor core (abbr.)
    61. One of the Hudson Division sections (abbr.)
    67. Where you get on the Internet
    69. Type of email server (abbr.)
    71. Number (abbr.)
    73. One of the armed services (abbr.)
    74. Canadian prefix
    75. In charge of a section (abbr.)

    Solution


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