This is your custom made Electronics Themed crossword puzzle for December 11th,
2022. All RF Cafe crossword puzzles are custom made by me, Kirt Blattenberger, and
have only words and clues related to electronics, electricity, radio, radar, 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!
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of
RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words
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1. Parallelogram in which all sides are equal
6. RF power tapping device 11. Image file format name extension 12. Amateur
radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.) 13. Stock symbol for Microsoft
16. Schema for computer or device presentation to the operator (abbr.) 17. 3
GHz to 30 GHz 19. Chemical symbol for silver 20. U.S. military organization
(abbr.) 21. Threaded fastener 22. BER, 8 bits at a time 24. Type of logic
gate 25. Base of the decimal number system 27. Galilean moon 29. One system's
phonetic letter "z" 31. Things in a bill of material 32. Web's most popular
radio frequency engineering site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.) 35. International phonetic
alphabet letter "O" 37. Chemical symbol for cobalt 38. Phase of matter between
liquid and solid (pl.) 40. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 41. Chemical symbol
for scandium 43. Keyboard key 45. Charged particle 47. Small unit of capacitance
(abbr.) 48. Electromagnetic (abbr.) 49. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)
50. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.) 51. Chemical symbol for thallium
52. Chemical symbol for thallium 53. Type of amplifier, slang (pl.) 58. Chemical
symbol for tantalum 60. Diac that can be turned back off 62. Miscalculations
63. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (abbr.) 64. Push to Talk
(abbr.) 65. Chemical symbol for erbium 66. Indium phosphide (abbr.) 67.
PC follower 69. High-speed logic family 71. Material testing organization
(abbr.) 73. Unit of energy 74. Type of flip flop 76. A common battery cell
size 78. Type of component package (abbr.) 79. Type of spread spectrum that
does not use frequency hopping (abbr.) 80. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 81.
Be behind in phase 82. Phase of matter between liquid and solid 83. A famous
LEO satellite constellation (originally to be 77 satellites) |
1. Slang for transmitter and/or receiver 2. 3
MHz to 30 MHz 3. Mars has two of these 4. Digital pattern coding type (abbr.)
5. Miniature RF connector 6. Logic gate output configuration (abbr.) 7. Archaic
abbreviation for picowatt 8. Prefix meaning "to squeeze" 9. Chemical symbol
for einsteinium 10. Greek letter 11. Chemical symbol for gallium 14. Small
DIP package (abbr., pl.) 15. Create a power supply output w/o a ground reference
18. Chemical symbol for francium 20. Extract information from a carrier signal
23. Causing a circuit to 'ring' at its natural frequency 25. Temporary Engineering
Change document (abbr.) 26. Ham's code for "Are you busy?" 28. Method of self-detection
and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.) 30. Cellphone band just
below PCS 31. Mate a plug to a jack 33. A number which divides another number
without remainder 34. Electronic component for passing certain frequencies and
blocking others 36. Angle having more than 180 degrees but less than 360 38.
Type of programmable device (abbr.) 39. Halves of DIP's 42. Centimeter (abbr.)
44. Radio signals from the cosmos (abbr.) 46. Opposite of I.D. 47. Unit of
length (abbr.) 52. End of soldering iron 54. Base 16 number system (abbr.)
55. Cambridge University _____, technical book publisher 56. Computer I/O interfaces;
i.e., USB, serial, parallel 57. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
59. Unit of current 61. Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (abbr.) 63. Sent
a telegram 67. A common battery cell size 68. Transformer interwinding connection
70. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin 71. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
72. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.) 73. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)
74. Intentionally block communications signals 75. Mass unit (abbr.) 77. Chemical
symbol for aluminum 81. Chemical symbol for lutetium |
See solution below
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