By H. Ward Silver, NØAX
January 22, 2008
I decided to throw some electronic symbols on the crossword grid this week and see if I could find some workarounds for them. Thanks to ARRL Web puzzle partner W2PA for the inspiration - I hope this one is as fun to work as it was to generate!
Across
1. Impassive
6. Spurious splatter
13. Makes molecules
14. Here I am!
15. Telephone (CW abbr)
16. Province for VO1 (abbr)
18. Searched with "Vista"
21. Adjustments
25. Tease
26. CW for "Stand By"
27. Around the world or off the moon
29. Transfers data on the Internet
30. Nevertheless, it moves!
32. Capacitor loss factor
35. Partner to WPA section
36. Unwanted products
37. Digital voice equipment maker
39. What's left over from gross
40. Type of phono connector
41. First all-transistor logic family
42. Wipes out the HF bands
44. See ya!
47. Universal method (abbr)
48. Tool
50. Unrecorded contact (abbr)
53. Forever (abbr)
54. Engineer that signs tower drawings (abbr)
55. World time
56. Halves of the day (three words)
58. Video line
60. AMSAT designator
61. Antenna switching relay (abbr)
62. Clear night
67. Take quickly
70. Small frequency adjustment (two words)
71. Rover operation
Down
1. CW for "End of Message"
2. Volunteer experts on technical subjects (abbr)
3. Common contraction
4. Electromotive force
5. Radio wave (abbr)
6. CW for double dash
7. Unlicensed radio service
8. Japanese radio maker
9. Reduced prices
10. Prefix of equatorial country
11. Band watcher
12. Home state to Ten-Tec
17. Uses the prefix LU
18. Province for VE6's
19. Right away (abbr)
20. Province for VY2
21. Not us
22. Continent for Zone 37 (abbr)
23. Nautical speed (abbr)
24. 6-meter propagation mode (two words)
28. How the ham gets to the antenna
31. Has rungs
33. Another name for radio equipment
34. Preceeded 41 Across
37. Abbreviation for ham radio
38. Base-8 (abbr)
42. Holds something up
43. Something
45. Wobbly knees on the tower
46. Prefix meaning "electrical"
49. Mobile antenna mount
51. Quick Internet texting
52. One input to a mixer
55. Prefix meaning "not" or "reverse"
57. Hard to work
59. Inhabitant of A4, A6, A7, and A9
62. Western ARRL section (abbr)
63. Tough, brittle metal (chemical symbol)
64. Coldest continent (abbr)
65. Parent of S5, 9A, E7, and Z3
66. Magnetic metal (chemical symbol)
67. CW greeting early in the day
68. Prefix meaning "two"
69. Northeasternmost state (postal code)
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