By Chris Codella, W2PA
February 13, 2009
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Across
1. Rock band Los ___
6. Polite XYL title
10. Cooper maker
14. Amplifier connector label, say
15. Light beige
16. Coax elbows
17. Loop type
18. Apple competitor
19. Phony DX
20. Sign in a radio station
22. Packet ckt.
24. NTS rock band?
27. Clues
31. Bamboozle
32. SV letter
34. B4, of yore
35. CW shorthand item
37. Single- or multi-, in propagation
38. Gator's cousin
39. Knight's need
40. NTS unit
41. Type of feed
42. Globe ____ transmitter
43. ARRL volunteer official
44. Prefix with -single
45. Good report, using 35-acrosses
46. W7 city
49. 76, 77 and 78 maker
50. Expressionless
52. Illicit rendezvous station?
54. Area net for 55-across
55. Region net for 12-down
56. Staff
59. Brain wave
61. Soldering tools
65. OOTC members
66. Jamaica
67. Bigger than picos
68. Bosses on 40-acrosses
69. Small dwellings
70. Isle of Man prefix
Down
1. Needer of too many fills
2. New year's nr
3. Traffic handling award
4. Words before band, on an FCC citation?
5. W6YX
6. Noble I-land family name
7. Tennis whiz
8. Characters before seventy three
9. Entry class
10. Early radio parts maker
11. 9RN place
12. A 30-down, in W2-land
13. An end to perfection?
21. Ready follower?
23. Transistor type
24. Long haul 52-across
25. Common preamble item
26. Where a radiogram enters the ether
27. Fox or turkey follower
28. Guy wire hardware items
29. ____ back
30. ARRL unit
33. Word count
36. Batt. term. label
38. 7 MHz timer
40. Pre-LED amber light
41. Spreading, as with cream cheese
43. EA talk
46. Health resort
47. Forever
48. Humor newspaper nameplate middle
51. Places to find antenna restrictions
53. Filter maker
55. RTTY conveyance
56. Area net for 11-down
57. RX ckt.
58. Old video game inits.
60. Was CR8, once
62. Band breaker
63. Dahdit, in F-land
64. Dir. from W2 to LU
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