3/3/2006 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 LEO satellite constellation

7 Greek letter

11 Transmitters & receivers

13 6.02x10^23 of anything

16 Akin to EEs, PEs, SEs & CEs

17 Is behind in phase

20 Negation prefix

21 Logic gate

23 Type of current flow

24 Finite-Element Model

25 Max or min voltage of a waveform, abbr.

26 A BPF spec.

27 Graphic printer file format developed by HP

29 Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line

31 Logic family, abbr.

32 Home state of Los Alamos lab, abbr.

33 Location on a PCB for a component lead

35 Ratio of circumference to diameter

36 2/3 of a triac, pl.

37 Popular hobby/craft knife maker

38 Super glue, abbr.

39 One axis of an oscilloscope

40 Greek letter (micro)

41 Internet mailbox type, abbr.

43 Unit of length

45 Set of poles

46 One port of an amplifier

47 Switch position

48 Add solder to tip of iron

49 Electrical safety organization, abbr.

50 Front edge of a wing, abbr.

51 IC killer

53 Primary amplifier specification

55 Multiplexer, abbr.

57 A disk operation

59 Opposite of top

62 Temperature-Compensated crystal Oscillator

63 Detection transducers

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1 Infrared

2 Type of memory

3 Theoretical

4 The "D" in CD

5 Galilean moon

6 World's only remaining superpower

8 Electromagnetic

9 2000 pounds

10 Up in the air

12 2nd generation wireless, abbr.

14 Cases

15 The inventor of logarithms

17 Have a positive phase wrt a reference

18 Microelectronics manufacturer, abbr.

19 Join two wires

22 Angular speed unit, abbr.

28 Radio navigation system

30 Sends junk e-mail

31 Numerical base of binary system

33 Cable bundle tie cord

34 Unit of time, abbr.

36 Original digital IC package format, abbr.

37 A Greek letter

39 Type of film

40 1/000 of an inch

42 Just entering the nonlinear region

44 Oscillator manufacturer in NJ, abbr.

45 The suns most distant planet (usually)

49 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

52 Data conversion device, abbr.

54 Modulation type

56 Logic gate

58 Ham abbreviation for "distant station"

59 Chemical symbol for beryllium

60 Switch position

61 1E6 ns

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