By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
Contributing Editor
November 2, 2005
Across
1. In your favor, hopefully
4. Offer at auction
6. Signs up again
10. Measure of intelligence
11. Slovenia's northern neighbor (prefix)
12. Can't answer
15. Poorly considered and rushed
17. Home state of Paul Revere (postal abbr)
19. Southern neighbor of 17 Across (postal abbr.)
20. Affectionate way of saying "old"
21. Our continent (abbr)
22. The Show-Me State (postal abbr)
23. Oklahoma and Florida both have one
26. Company founded by David Sarnoff
28. Most conductive metal (chem symb)
29. Powered up
30. Operate in order to educate or familiarize
32. Equipment designer (abbr)
34. Breaks or parts under stress
35. The directions of lines of latitude
36. Uncorrodable metal (abbr)
37. Opposite of NW
38. Abbreviation for solar radiation in propagation forecasts
39. Small annoying insect
41. Weather (abbr)
42. That (CW abbr)
44. Group of eight
47. Trade group of electronics manufacturers (abbr)
48. Russian Web URL suffix
49. One of the maritime provinces (abbr)
50. Items shipped with the DXpeditioners
52. Rearrange to obscure
54. Slang for working DX
55. Logical complement to and
56. Male article, add 's' to get female
57. Gotta have both of these in the water
60. Mechanisms by which radio signals travel
62. Audio accessory manufacturer
63. West of 22 Across
64. Later (CW abbr)
66. Western Canadian province (postal abbr)
67. Naughty words
68. Who gives amateur exams (abbr)
69. And (CW abbr)
Down
1. Keep this topped off in the generator
2. Removed from competition
3. Distress signal
4. An animal you don't want to visit at Field Day
5. Simplest wire antenna
6. Thin, stiff cylinder
7. Designs electrical equipment (abbr)
8. Prefix meaning "million trillion"
9. Satellite that watches the sun
13. Heavy component of amplifiers
14. Parts of an antenna that radiate
15. Civil defense emergency organization
16. ARRL Field Organization office in charge of a section
17. The north pole that moves
18. Southernmost continent (abbr)
21. Number (CW abbr)
23. Successfully complete an exam
24. Successive reflections from the ionosphere
25. An all-digital frequency synthesizer (abbr)
27. The collection of responses to test questions (two words)
31. Type of wideband yagi design (abbr)
33. Common type of timing circuit (abbr)
39. Middle class of license
40. Passes to a hamfest
43. Waterproof cover
45. Young scout
46. 8760 of these in a year
47. Time zone for the Hudson Division
51. Computer-based thinking (abbr)
53. Prune or cut off
54. Vibrate
58. Abbreviation for skyhook
59. Organization that administers exams
60. Type of broadband data system (abbr)
61. Station that transmits bulletins (abbr)
62. Homebrew (CW abbr)
65. Same as clockwise (abbr)