Analog Electronics Theme Crossword Puzzle
August 14th, 2022

This custom Analog Electronics themed Crossword Puzzle for August 14th, 2022, is brought to you by RF Cafe. All RF Cafe crossword puzzles are custom made by me, Kirt Blattenberger, and have only words and clues related to RF, microwave, and mm-wave engineering, optics, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical subjects. As always, this crossword contains no names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or plants, movie stars, or anything of the sort unless it/he/she is related to this puzzle's technology theme (e.g., Reginald Denny or the Tunguska event in Siberia). The technically inclined cruciverbalists amongst us will appreciate the effort. Enjoy!


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

Analog Electronics Theme Crossword Puzzle for August 14th, 2022 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Logarithmic unit of voltage (abbr.)
4. _____ rule, a 1950s engineer's tool
8. One cutoff frequency specification for a bandpass filter
12. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector
15. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
17. Amateur radio operating mode for sharing real-time video (abbr.)
18. Automatic repeat request used in AMTOR (abbr.)
19. Half of DSB
21. Chemical symbol for ruthenium
23. "Texting" (abbr.)
25. User Datagram Protocol
27. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane
28. Device under test (abbr.)
29. Chemical symbol for strontium
30. Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.)
32. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)
34. Part of a FOR loop
35. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
36. Type of leadless surface mount IC package (abbr.)
37. A common battery cell size
38. RF ____, the world's best engineering website
39. Singulated piece of IC wafer
41. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
42. Unit of atmospheric pressure (abbr.)
43. Type of electrical wire insulation
45. Logic gate output configuration (abbr.)
46. Specialized mobile radio (abbr.)
48. Name for amateur wireless communications (2 wds.)
49. Amp/1000
50. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
52. Variable crystal oscillator (abbr.)
53. Another name for a test lead
56. Digital pattern coding type (abbr.)
58. Service of the ARRL that helps hams solve technical problems (abbr.)
59. Computer monitor cable type (abbr.)
62. Earth's natural satellite
65. Attenuator
66. Method of sending high-speed digital signals on electric distribution wires, a Ham's nemesis (abbr.)
67. Chemical symbol for iron
68. Chemical symbol for argon
70. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
72. Type of logic gate
73. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
74. Filter type (abbr.)
75. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
76. Logic family (abbr.)
78. 30 GHz to 300 GHz
80. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
81. Early predecessor to an online forum (abbr.)
82. Chemical element abbreviated Sn
83. Transformer interwinding connection
85. Current-voltage phase mnemonic
87. Term used in soldering to achieve the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface
88. One of four lines used in ferrite core memories
89. A common insulation type for wire-wrap wire
90. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane
2. Chemical symbol for bismuth
3. Amateur radio operator who is qualified to administer Amateur Radio licensing examinations (abbr., pl.)
5. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
6. International Telecommunications Union
7. This calculus operation yields current through an inductor
9. Mr. Dirac's first name
10. Period between radar transmitter's output waveform (abbr.)
11. Equalizer (abbr.)
12. Base Station Transceivers (abbr.)
13. Chemical symbol for niobium
14. Female U.S. Naval admiral who coined the term "bug" for software problems (2 wds.)
16. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)
19. Hub of the solar system
20. Aircraft identification instrument for secondary radar
22. Country of RF Cafe's residency
24. Electronic component package type (abbr.)
26. It is the "P" in S2P
27. Trims a piece of Kapton tape to length
28. Design for Manufacturability (abbr.)
29. Crystal filter type (abbr.)
31. Part of this website's title
33. Chemical symbol for silicon
36. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)
37. ampere-hour (abbr.)
40. Generated an official engineering change document
42. Strong cable covering
44. Facility where semiconductors are manufactured
47. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount
51. Automatic Testing, Evaluation & Reporting (abbr.)
52. Very small aperture terminal
54. Type of data storage IC
55. Opposite of I.D.
56. Filter type (abbr.)
57. Chemical symbol for chlorine
60. Chemical symbol for gadolinium
61. The UK's largest defense electronics contractor (abbr.)
63. Mathematical table whose entries come from a fixed finite set of symbols (abbr.)
64. Exponent that returns the original number
66. Bits per second (abbr.)
67. Heatsink feature (pl.)
69. Radio teletype (abbr.)
71. Type of distribution, squared
74. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
75. Heatsink feature
77. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)
79. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency
81. Chemical symbol for beryllium
82. Test equipment (abbr.)
84. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
86. Chemical symbol for europium

See solution below

 

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Analog Electronics Theme Crossword Puzzle for August 14th, 2022 - RF Cafe