February 1, 2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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RF Cafe: Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1. The most distant point of an orbit from the earth

7. Cause to be smaller

12. Miniature threaded RF connector

13. Constellation : The little bear

14. Singulated piece of IC wafer

16. Test equipment manufacturer, now Agilent

17. Java server pages, abbr.

18. System On Chip

20. Chemical symbol for aluminum

21. Bands between RF and baseband

22. _____ Instruments, a programmable delay line manufacturer in Bellevue, WA

23. Attenuator

25. What current is said to do, past tense

28. Parts in a kit, pl.

30. Chemical element abbreviated Sn

31. Test Equipment Connection, in Lake Mary, FL

33. Prefix used on many MIL-SPEC components

34. Signal-to-noise ratio, abbr.

35. Chemical symbol for tin

37. Pertaining to Boolean operations

39. Chemical symbol for calcium

40. He united electricity and magnetism into the concept of the electro-magnetic field

41. Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr.

42. Radiating device

44. 10^1 numerical prefix

46. Automated Test Equipment

48. Official Space Shuttle designation, abbr.

49. Global System for Mobile Communications

51. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane

52. Part of CRC

54. Describes an amplifier capable of tolerating any complex source/load impedance

56. Mr. de Forest's first name

57. Terminations

58. Upper Sideband

59. Chemical symbol for neptunium

61. Direct Memory Access

63. Antenna, abbr.

64. Type of current flow

65. Adjust a pot

67. Using minimum resources

70. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word for Bill the Cat)

71. ______ Monolithics, MIC/MMIC designers in Frederick, MD

72. Similar to a laser, but at lower frequencies, pl.

DOWN

1. Unit of current

2. Last stage in a transmitter, abbr.

3. Triangular joint filler added for strength

4. Effective Radiated Power

5. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

6. Amplifier vendor in Souderton, PA

7. Chemical symbol for radon

8. Electrical overstress, abbr.

9. Form/fit/function replacement

10. Chemical symbol for cadmium

11. Electronics Industry Association

12. Metal or plastic rod that connects a potentiometer wiper to a knob, pl.

15. RF and microwave systems and subsystems vendor in NY

17. RF switch & attenuator manufacturer in Indianapolis, IN

19. Software engineering tool, abbr.

21. Charged particle

24. Cellphone band below PCS; Digital Communication System

26. Characteristic of a system that produces no new frequency content

27. Keyboard key

28. Programmable logic device, abbr.

29. Moon of Saturn discovered in 1789

32. Apollo 11 astronaut Michael _______

33. Intentionally blocking communications signals

36. Theoretical

38. exponent

41. Radio navigation systems

42. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY

43. Automatic Send-Receive

45. Capture leading edge of a signal

47. High-speed logic family

48. Unit of conductance

50. Logs onto a hard drive

51. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane

53. Semiconductor lamp

55. Base Station Transceivers

60. Peak Envelope Power

62. Colorado Springs military school, abbr.

63. Automatic network analyzer, abbr.

64. Applied Computational Sciences, abbr.

66. Chemical symbol for thallium

68. Chemical symbol for francium

69. 1/6 inch printer's measure; Electromagnetic

70. Chemical symbol for argon


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