By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
March 15, 2005
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!
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.)
