March 21, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

 

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle  3/21/2010

ACROSS

2. Changes from a "0" to a "1"

6. Greek letter

11. Software drafting tool (abbr.)

13. Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.)

14. Test point (abbr.)

15. Resistor used to drain voltage off of a high potential supply

19. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)

20. Early computer display screen resolution (abbr.)

23. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

24. Ham's code for "Entire net stand by."

26. Telex-Over-Radio (abbr.)

28. ________ Technology, precision analog measurement and control company in San Francisco, CA

30. Direction of carbon fiber strands

33. He came up with 6.02E23 as the number of "entities" in a mole of anything

35. Scheme to maintain proper frequency (abbr.)

36. PCB Material _____, RF substrate raw materials supplier in Palatine, IL

38. Digital Signal Processor (abbr.)

39. Unit of liquid volume

40. Ad-hoc on demand distance vector (abbr.)

41. BASIC looping keyword

42. Type of digital filter (abbr.)

44. Charged particle

46. Unit of resistance

48. Motorola's "Digital ___"

49. Ham's code for "Can you acknowledge receipt?"

50. Chemical symbol for bromine

51. Galilean moon

53. Chemical symbol for copper

54. Chemical symbol for californium

56. Parts per million (abbr.)

57. RF connector type

58. A common battery cell size

59. Semiconductor lamp

61. Chemical symbol for lithium

62. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

64. Chemical symbol for magnesium

65. Electromagnetic (abbr.)

67. Powers pneumatic devices

68. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)

70. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)

71. Logical negation operator

72. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

73. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)

74. Thing in a bill of material

76. Connector vendor, now owned by FCI in St. Louis, Missouri

77. Once around a circuit

80. _____ Microwave East (part of L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY

83. Radio Amateurs of Canada

85. ________ + Test Equipment, TE sales & rental service in Webster, MA

89. Global System for Mobile Communications (abbr.)

90. Its chemical symbol is Sb

93. Logic family (abbr.)

94. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin

96. Transmission control protocol

97. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

98. Chemical symbol for gallium

100. Type of reconfigurable memory (abbr., pl.)

102. Chemical symbol for beryllium

103. Switch position

105. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

106. _______ Electronics, RF filter & components manufacturer in Garfield, NJ

107. First magnitude star in Auriga

DOWN

1. Removed stored energy from a capacitor

3. Number system using only the digits 0 to 7

4. Key feature in a high level overvoltage protection device

5. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

7. Chemical symbol for calcium

8. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)

9. Using a logical connection scheme for redundant power supplies

10. Filter vendor in Norwalk, CT

12. European equivalent to the U.L.

15. Binary Coded Decimal

16. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

17. Equalizer (abbr.)

18. RĂ¡dio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)

21. Image file format name extension

22. Feedback system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)

23. One port of an amplifier

25. 1.602E-19 Joules

26. Time division duplex (abbr.)

27. Method of connecting redundant power supplies (pl.)

29. Mathematical model for an inexact representation of a function

30. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

31. Creating a corona

32. Ham-ese for Young Lady

34. He, along with his brother Wilbur, flew the 1st self-powered aircraft flight

36. Weight (abbr.)

37. 10^1 numerical prefix

41. Subatomic particle named after an Italian-born American nuclear physicist

42. Opposite of O.D.

43. Chemical symbol for radium

45. The central core of an atom

47. An efficient microstrip corner shape

49. An antenna constructed with both quad and Yagi elements

50. Broadband Over Power Lines, a Ham's nemesis

52. Exponent that returns the original number

53. Person responsible for program spending (abbr.)

55. Finite-Element Model

60. Keeps wires from shorting together

63. Strong cable coverings

66. Megahertz

68. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

69. A common battery cell size

75. Chemical symbol for manganese

76. Stock symbol for Boeing

78. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

79. Oscillator type that is referenced to an external source (abbr.)

81. Chemical symbol for silver

82. Decimeter (abbr.)

83. Unit of length equal to 5.5 yards

84. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)

86. Its chemical symbol is Ar

87. Chemical symbol for chlorine

88. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)

90. Applied Computational Sciences, RF simulator company in Escondido, CA (abbr.)

91. Chemical symbol for neptunium

92. Theoretical

95. Test equipment (abbr.)

96. Chemical symbol for thulium

99. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)

101. Chemical symbol for rubidium

102. 10 decibels

104. Unit of length (abbr.)

105. Chemical symbol for iron


See solution below

RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle  3/21/2010