By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
October 1, 2005
Our service is administered and
policed by the friendly folks known as the kilocycle cops, the Federal
Communications Commission. Every ham needs to have a pretty good understanding
of ham radio's relationship with its regulators. This is a puzzle to exercise
the understanding of the party of the first part (you) with respect to and in
respect of the party of the second part (the FCC)!
Across
2. Wireless broadband replacement for BPL
5. Entry template
8. Electronic expert (abbr.)
10. Celestial longitude
11. Go ahead (CW abbr.)
12. Waveguide designation
13. What unrenewed licenses do
14. Legal name for signal
15. Response to the magic word (CW abbr.)
16. Leave out
18. Abbreviation for a proposed regulation
21. Offices away from HQ
23. National emergency practice
25. Person who corrects (abbr.)
27. From (CW abbr.)
28. Maintain order or direct
29. Body of law
31. Telephone (abbr.)
33. Organization not part of a government (abbr.)
35. Federal authority that reviews towers
37. Ascertain identity
40. Roadblock or obstacle
42. Flight trainer (abbr.)
43. Congressional office that holds the purse strings
45. Broadband data service over wires
46. To pull back in order to slow
48. Abbreviation for federal laws
49. Section of the FCC regulations
51. Opposite of 11 Down (CW abbr.)
53. Time to relax (abbr.)
54. FCC Bureau in charge of amateur radio
57. What the FCC does on the ham bands
59. Prefix of a transistor package type
60. When the real thing just won't do
61. Assuming the FCC isn't listening
62. A ham's favorite FCC ruling
Down
1. You pay it to get a license
2. The question and answer part of the test
3. Worldwide organization for ham radio
4. Cut or terminate
5. Too many goofs
6. Take back or nullify
7. Your personal number at the FCC
9. Administered to prospective hams
11. Opposite of 51 Across (CW abbr.)
12. The W in WARC
14. Make a mistake
16. Ham watchers of the bands
17. Organization that administers worldside standards (acronym)
19. Forbid
20. Not you
22. Prototype or exhibit
24. Teleprinter (abbr.)
26. Where the FCC lives
28. Type of license
30. Ensure that the rules are followed
31. Below MF (abbr.)
32. Administrators of ham exams (abbr.)
34. Where you go to work off stress from reading the rules
36. Receiver system that clamps noise
38. Can't find it (abbr.)
39. License
41. Award
44. What companies submit to get spectrum
45. Orthodox thinking
47. Too many of these and you flunk
49. Stickler about the rules
50. The worst color of slip
52. The name of the letter that says, "You're Busted!"
(abbr.)
55. Trim or prune
56. Band within a band
58. The island state that's not an island (postal abbr.)
