By Chris Codella, W2PA
July 24, 2009
Humor has played a central role in QST from its beginning. This puzzle will take you back to one instance of it that spanned the 1940s well into the 1970s.
Across
1. Four after A
5. High frequency prefix
10. Two is one
14. Dubai designator
15. Best condition for contesting, or tower climbing, say
16. ZS neighbor's prefix
17. AI language
18. Diminish
19. FET type
20. With 41 and 52 across, society highlighted in 36 across and founded by 31 down
23. VE2 way
24. They make some displays play
28. Skedaddles
31. Buzzer (non-RF)
33. 5N dough
34. Mint alt., on eBay, e.g.
35. "Excuse me", low in the band
36. QST department
37. React. plus res.
38. Hams love them
40. Bird word
41. See 20 across
43. Owns
44. Coffee maker
45. "Sesame Street" regular
46. Cut 100
47. Salad green
49. Kane's word
51. "QRZ?"
52. See 20 across
58. N.Y.C. part
61. 4W, was CR8 during the time of 31 down writing 36 across
62. Tuvalu
63. Houston university
64. 31 down's prefix
65. She sheep
66. Rotating rings for towers
67. "Yes, Sen. Kennedy", familiarly
68. Zero
Down
1. Unadorned
2. Nassau prefix
3. EME antenna
4. IC-7800, say, in JA
5. Grammar topic
6. Radiation pattern feature
7. Ski lift
8. Respond again, on RTTY, say
9. "He's ___ nowhere man"
10. Tool for reducing spectrum width?
11. 20's dispenser
12. JA transceiver maker middle
13. Don'ts partner
21. Famous DXpedioner, when 31 down wrote 36 across, familiarly
22. Trillions of zeptos
25. Goof
26. Passions
27. 5th century G-land settlers
28. Last second on-line bidder
29. D6 place
30. Poplars, in W0, say
31. Callsign suffix of one time 36 across writer and creator of 20 across.
32. Zero zulu in two-land June
35. Articulate
36. Very popular examples of 38 across
38. Early radio maker
39. Fast no more
42. Decorates 60's-style
46. "...like taking ______ from a fire hose." (information overload)
47. Half a Latin dance
48. T.O.M.'s series of articles
50. Where the DX might be listening
51. Kit alternative
53. Radiate
54. UHF antenna type, with dis-
55. Prefix in Lombardia
56. First astronaut ham, familiarly
57. Well known DXer KH6IJ when 31 down ran 36 across
58. Disp. device before LCD, LED
59. Early first century year
60. Inter-area NTS org
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