Unlike all of the other engineering and science-themed crossword puzzles I have ever seen, every word and clue - without exception - in these RF Cafe puzzles has been personally entered into a very large database of relevant terms. The list has been built over nearly two decades of creating these crossword puzzles. Let me know if you would like a custom crossword puzzle built for your company, school, club, etc. (no charge). The same software, Crossword Express, has been used to generate the puzzle for all those years - made by the good guy at AUS-PC-SOFT (in Australia) that wrote the program. Read down near the bottom of the linked page and you will see where he was doomed by people distributing his software without paying for it (I paid for mine). I suffer the same injustice from people who receive my RF Stencils for Visio and RF Cascade Workbook software without paying me for my hard work. You might be surprised at how widely my stuff has been pirated. It doesn't provide much of an incentive to create new versions. cruciverbalist: [noun] cruci- ("cross") + verbal ("words") + -ist ("agent, person") -- A person who constructs or works crosswords.
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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words 
<click for full size to print> 1. Computer monitor cable type (abbr.)
4. PCB interconnect
8. Computer character set (abbr.)
12. Device under test (abbr.)
15. Satellite TV system
17. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
18. User Datagram Protocol
19. Filter type (abbr.)
21. 1.602E-19 Joules
23. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)
25. Type of secondary radar system (abbr.)
27. Ham's code for "Take over as net control station."
28. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)
29. Chemical symbol for neon
30. World's largest yearly convention of gadget and device manufacturers (abbr.)
32. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices
34. Chemical symbol for europium
35. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
36. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane
37. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)
38. High-speed multimedia (abbr.)
39. Digital pattern coding type
41. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)
42. Below ELF
43. Prefix for 10E-18
45. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
46. Uppermost surface
48. System for communicating between areas of a building or vessel
49. Short for "intermodulation"
50. Rate of a radar transmitter's output waveform (abbr.)
52. The cell band above DCN
53. Its chemical symbol is Fe
56. Metric system (abbr.)
58. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)
59. Miniature RF connector
62. Inventor of the pre-quantum atomic model
65. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)
66. Large unit of apparent power (abbr.)
67. Chemical symbol for thallium
68. Switch position
70. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)
72. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)
73. Unit of time (abbr.)
74. One system's phonetic letter "z"
75. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
76. Keyboard key
78. Internet address (abbr.)
80. Test equipment (abbr.)
81. Direction of carbon fiber strands
82. Service of the ARRL that helps hams solve technical problems (abbr.)
83. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.)
85. File name extension for an ASCII file
87. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere
88. Electrical unit of potential difference (pl.)
89. International phonetic alphabet letter "I"
90. Graphics file extension | 2. Chemical symbol for gadolinium
3. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)
5. __ + 7 Down is this website's title
6. Anatech Electronics Inc., (abbr.)
7. 5 Down + ____ is this website's title
9. Hub of the solar system (pl.)
10. CDMA Development Group (abbr.)
11. Internet protocol (abbr.)
12. Printer resolution abbreviation
13. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)
14. Circuit or mechanical professional usually with an Associate's or higher degree and/or military experience (pl.)
16. Miniature threaded RF connector
19. Base Station Transceivers (abbr.)
20. Output winding of a transformer (pl.)
22. Amateur radio operator who is qualified to administer Amateur Radio licensing examinations (abbr., pl.)
24. Miniature RF connector
26. An overcurrent protection device
27. Amplifier vendor in Palm Bay, FL, now part of Spectrum Microwave
28. Maximum Usable Frequency
29. On-the-air meeting of hams at a set time, day and radio frequency
31. Type of component package (abbr.)
33. Type of current
36. Chemical symbol for chlorine
37. Unit of length (abbr.)
40. Causes a voltage or current waveform to gradually die out
42. Quantum electron property (pl.)
44. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)
47. Base of the decimal number system
51. Thin layer of material deposited a surface
52. Another name for a test lead
54. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
55. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
56. A gaseous process that deposits insulating films or metal onto a wafer at elevated temperature (abbr.)
57. Chemical symbol for gallium
60. Chemical symbol for manganese
61. Intel 8086 or Motorola 6800 (abbr.)
63. Opposite of I.D.
64. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
66. Send Morse Code
67. The "T" in ATE
69. A common lamp tube gas
71. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
74. Hit a component with an electrostatic discharge
75. Lubricant
77. Display type
79. Opposite of USB
81. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
82. Part of a FOR loop
84. Greek letter
86. Centimeter (abbr.) |
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