By Chris Codella, W2PA
February 8, 2008
From extensive to inexpensive, from stacked to hacked, from high-gain to no-pain, ham radio antennas come in every shape and size. This week’s puzzler should prompt cogitation of radiation.
Across
1. 10 kilogauss
6. UA parliament
10. Kludge
14. Kind of socket or tube
15. Ancient OA-lander
16. Competent
17. Improbable dream VHF/UHF antenna
20. Achy, as after an antenna project
21. Transceiver knob label
22. Part connections
23. Ckt.between IF and AF
24. Suffix with bio- or proto-
26. Loud speaker
30. Eye part
31. US hams do it every 10 years, usually
32. "That's great, friend", on CW
33. Be next to
37. What rural hams fancy themselves?
40. Feedline badness
41. Baseball stats
42. Symbol in coax specs
43. Go out of your cell area
44. Unidirectional dipole
45. Where all good signals go, eventually?
48. Late summer contest
49. Tribander parts
50. Kind of FET
51. They have replaced tuning dials in modern rigs, often.
55. Improbable dream HF antenna
59. K, on phone
60. Elser-Mathes Cup target
61. Look of disdain
62. One meaning of V
63. Switch type
64. They deliver power
Down
1. Narrowest tower sections, often
2. EME signal
3. Sirius, for one
4. Emit coherent light
5. Draft pick
6. One's self, on CW
7. Ampere, for one
8. Lots and lots of Hz in the old days
9. Word to a doctor
10. Bugs, Roger, Peter, et. al.
11. Garfield's middle name
12. Copper often does it
13. Enables, as a transmitter
18. Kind of hunter, in radio
19. Word of regret
23. "See you ____ the log"
24. Univ. teachers
25. Kilo follower
26. Not written
27. W7-land city
28. What this puzzle is about, for short
29. Connectors named for their shape
30. Italian yagi?
32. One C per V
33. BBs, e.g.
34. E, to a non-ham?
35. Encourage
36. Bygone UA leader
38. It glows amber
39. Part
43. Sometimes causes antenna failure
44. Window part, where the feedline might come in
45. Group of trees
46. 5 wpm, 70 mph, etc.
47. Eyeball benders
48. Least good
49. Gait faster than a walk
50. QSLs often go via them (abbr.)
51. Lead-ins to P
52. Future ham, sometimes
53. Became SK
54. Switching semiconductors
56. RX spec.
57. Break, during a long contest, say
58. Sig. src.
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