By Chris Codella, W2PA
March 20, 2009
On the air, hams have a way with words. It's just not the way everyone else is used to.
Across
1. Sea eagles
5. 1950s car maker
9. Face-to-face exams
14. Ham's OM
15. Director Preminger
16. Come again
17. N N, on 7.007, say
18. Start of a conclusion
19. It might be airtight
20. Four and four ninths?
23. Coax adapters
24. Rcvr ckt
25. Squirrel food
28. KH6IJ (SK)
30. Smart or Bond
33. QRS sending, not
34. FD abode
35. Joint with a cap
36. 1, 13, 53 and 56-down, and a puzzle sub-theme
39. Swimming power supplies?
40. Bit of trivia, slangily
41. A Czech Republic prefix
42. Driller's deg.
43. Tiny parts
44. Plates
45. W7 sect.
46. Flower tower?
47. Two-hundred ten?
53. Jeered
54. Surf sound
55. TA-33 part
57. Kazakhstan prefix
58. Gawk at
59. Dipole terminators
60. Dings
61. SU river
62. Compass symbol
Down
1. FB RST., in the DX test, say
2. Easy antenna place
3. Smaller than a micro
4. Popular beef cuts
5. Meaning of 17-across
6. Monk Apollo's QTH
7. R followers
8. Nozzle site
9. Three on a resistor
10. Museum piece
11. Label on a DC supply, say
12. Garage job
13. Apologize, on 30m, say
21. Big gain
22. Bob Marley fan
25. Flashed over
26. Crowed
27. Milky gems
28. V4 place
29. "Put a lid ___!"
30. Hair net
31. Edible tubes
32. C C, on 7007, say
34. Be inclined
35. KM, on 7.007, say
37. VU physicist and Nobel Prize winner
38. Copier stuff
43. SM ops
44. AM
45. Special _____ station
46. Play for time
47. Kind of wave
48. Like some piano keys
49. High-tech suffix
50. Cartoon bear
51. Start of a conclusion
52. What a long element does
53. Not bad, on 7.007, say
56. Word with QSL
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