By Chris Codella, W2PA
Jully 11, 2008
Some people are born hams some achieve ham radio licenses and some have ham radio thrust upon them. Or something like that.
Across
1. VU metro (not meter)
6. Call to Bo-peep
9. T.O.M.
14. TN made rig
15. Rear panel label
16. 7X neighbor
17. Used before flip tops
19. More unwet
20. Infrequent frame rate mode
21. Major Armstrong, familiarly
23. Wiring harness parts
24. IT9 peak
26. Prefix with -tuner
28. Kind of drum
31. Contact plating solution?
36. Boatanchor unit
37. Part of ARRL: Abbr.
39. Enter
40. Suffix with reson-
42. In reserve
44. Produces radiator supports
45. Giving up
47. GM monster place
49. Viking partner
50. Callsign of 31 across
52. Overcome utterly
54. First QTH?
55. Hand (out)
57. Small fight
60. Field unit?
62. Competent
66. Loafed around
68. Nonphysical, say
70. Met show
71. Feed lines to
72. Partner of 9-across
73. Rocking ham
74. Hockey's Bobby
75. DXpeditioner's instruction
Down
1. Manuals, slangily
2. Times past
3. Fuzz
4. ARRL president, and president's grandson
5. Rev. of out.
6. Wound covers
7. All over again
8. Of a heart chamber
9. Cap. unit
10. Missile type
11. Ancient WARC band?
12. Prof. org. with many ham members
13. Elser-Mathes Cup objective
18. Poetic dusk
22. Pushes, gently
25. Leaves in a bag
27. The one above six?
28. Two or more yagis, say
29. Do and so
30. Tube terminal
32. Gasket
33. Possible Congo prefix
34. ___ alcohol
35. Malyj Vysotskij prefix
38. Suffix with electro-
41. Force-12 element fasteners, say
43. More lethal
46. Homer's neighbor
48. Pre-ham?
51. Int'l org. promoting learning
53. What the shack might do with the amplifier on
56. Crew tool
57. QRS
58. Between Oscar and Quebec
59. Kind of antenna aimer
61. A receiver annoyance, briefly
63. Arrest
64. 47-across is one
65. Exuberance
67. CW word
69. Zone type
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