RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Puzzle w/Weekly Headlines
August 27, 2017

For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I create a new crossword puzzle that has a theme related to engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical words. At least 12 clues in this puzzle with an asterisk (*) are pulled from this past week's (8/21 - 8/25) "Tech Industry Headlines" column on the RF Cafe homepage. Enjoy!


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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Puzzle w/Weekly Headlines August 27, 2017

ACROSS DOWN
2. Trigger circuit to convert a given waveform to a square wave output

6. FCC Proposes Fine for Cellphone _______ *

11. Unit of energy

13. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics (abbr.)

14. Unit of time (abbr.)

15. New Dawn for _______ Reactor Research *

19. Chemical symbol for silicon

20. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

23. Test document for verifying proper function (abbr.)

24. Heatsink feature

26. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices

28. Describes first-response communications under emergency conditions

30. Computer monitor cable type (abbr.)

33. Having no resistive component

35. Attenuator

36. Inductor used to block RF signals

38. Newest buzz phrase for ubiquitous remote control and monitoring of everything (abbr.)

40. ____ Now on Snapchat *

41. Move from cell to cell

43. Early computer display screen resolution (abbr.)

45. One port of an amplifier

47. Below ELF

48. System On Chip

49. Quickly changing portion of waveform

51. Chemical symbol for plutonium

53. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

54. A crescent shaped figure formed on a sphere or plane by two intersecting arcs

56. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

57. Ham's code for "Answer in prearranged order."

58. Stock symbol for Dell Computer

59. Type of current

61. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

62. Solid of rotation whose sides are the hypotenuse of a right triangle

64. 36 in. (abbr., pl.)

65. Last statement in a BASIC program

67. Greek letter

68. Enhanced Graphics Adapter

69. Prefix meaning "water"

71. 12 inches

72. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

75. Logic gates

78. Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.)

80. Celebrating the ________ *

84. Angular speed unit

85. ________ + Grumman

88. File name extension for an ASCII file

89. 3 GHz to 30 GHz

91. Unit of length equal to 5.5 yards

92. Powers pneumatic devices

93. Chemical symbol for californium

95. Greek letter

97. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

98. Anatech Electronics Inc., (abbr.)

100. MS's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages (abbr.)

101. Between-series connector

102. EE Challenges UK 5G Spectrum _______ Rules *

1. U.S. __________ Market Jumped 14% in Q2 *

3. 10E-2 numerical prefix

4. Stock symbol for Harris Communications

5. Chemical symbol for magnesium

7. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

8. Bands between RF and baseband

9. Mr. Bohr's first name

10. Opposition to the flow of an electrical current

12. Chemical symbol for chromium

15. Logic family (abbr.)

16. Filter type that blocks lower frequencies (abbr.)

17. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

18. 1/000 of an inch

21. A common battery cell size

22. Imaging device (abbr.)

23. A common battery cell size

25. Chemical symbol for nobelium

26. Anatech Electronics Inc., (abbr.)

27. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

29. Super glue

30. Chemical symbol for rhodium

31. ______ Secretly Recording You Through Your Mobile *

32. Chemical symbol for berkelium

34. _____________ Industry Backs Trump's China Probe *

36. Chemical symbol for chlorine

37. Chemical symbol for erbium

39. Japan Launches _________ for Better GPS System *

42. Nokia Wants to Conduct 3.5 GHz _____ ____ Tests at Comcast (2 wds.) *

43. Chemical symbol for cesium

44. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)

46. Attenuator topology (pl.)

48. Metal or plastic rod that connects a potentiometer wiper to a knob

50. Singulated piece of IC wafer

52. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)

53. Silicon transistor type

55. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)

58. A store-and-forward digital repeater which will receive and transmit a data packet on the same frequency

60. ______ Quantum Wells on Silicon on Insulator *

63. Captain Kirk's starship

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

66. 10E1 numerical prefix

70. Army-Navy specification prefix

71. Start frequency (abbr.)

73. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.)

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

76. Chemical symbol for argon

77. Decimeter (abbr.)

78. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)

79. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)

81. Rechargeable battery type (abbr.)

82. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

83. Greek letter

85. Negation prefix

86. Opposite of I.D.

87. Shorthand for troposphere

90. 2 New Jersey __ Radio Pirates Warned *

91. Read-only (abbr.)

94. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

96. European equivalent to the U.L.

97. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)

99. Internet protocol (abbr.)

100. PC follower


See solution below

 

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RF Cafe Engineering Crossword Solution w/Weekly Headlines August 27, 2017