Here is your custom made Electronics Themed crossword puzzle for Thanksgiving
Day, 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. This week's crossword greeting (2 wds.) 8.
Opposite of O.D. 9. Chemical symbol for lithium 11. Ham's code for "Unable
to copy you." 13. Type of chart use for project planning 17. Digital voltmeter
(abbr.) 20. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.) 21. Second brightest
star 23. Electrical overstress (abbr.) 24. Generated an official engineering
change document 25. A common battery cell size 26. Word used in describing
2-D and 3-D object dimensions; i.e., 10 mm __ 25 mm 27. The "O" in CMOS 28.
Opposite of USB 30. Base of the decimal number system 31. Wireless communications
used by truckers (abbr. + word) 35. Shorthand for telecommunications 39. Signal-to-noise
ratio (abbr.) 40. Chemical symbol for radium 42. ampere-hour (abbr.) 43.
Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.) 44. Consequence of under sampling
45. Greek letter used for resistance 46. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)
48. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.) 49. Unit of time (abbr.) 50. Keyboard key 53.
Vacuum tube with five electrodes 56. Put a new program on a computer 57. Greek
letter 59. Ham award meaning Worked All Zones 61. A false signal produced
in a superheterodyne receiver’s circuitry 65. Chemical symbol for erbium 66.
Test equipment (abbr.) 67. Common test for verifying high voltage tolerance w/o
breakdown 70. ELI the ICE ___ 71. Used to remove oxygen from or add hydrogen
to a compound 75. A keyboard key 76. Printer resolution abbreviation 77.
Amateur Teleprinter Over Radio (abbr.) 78. Common average used for sinewaves
(abbr.) 79. A common battery cell size 81. *DT 82. Test equipment that
provides a frequency-domain signal display (2 wds., pl.) |
2. Attenuator configuration (hyph.) 3. Yard (abbr.)
4. 10E-9 numerical prefix 5. S12 or S21 (abbr.) 6. Relating to any picture
or visual information, from the Latin word meaning "I see" 7. The "IP" in IP2
and IP3 (2 wds., pl.) 10. Unwanted mixing of two or more RF signals that creates
unintended frequencies 11. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net." 12.
The design component of total product cost (abbr.) 13. High frequency semiconductor
(abbr.) 14. Army-Navy specification prefix 15. Test point (abbr.) 16. The
Brits call it a valve 18. Voice-operated transmit (abbr.) 19. Degree of IC
sophistication (abbr.) 21. Heat measuring instrument 22. Circuit to generate
frequencies 29. Chemical symbol for beryllium 30. Chemical symbol for terbium
32. Type of flip-flop 33. Army-Navy specification prefix 34. Constellation
: The dragon 36. Terminations 37. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
38. Centimeter (abbr.) 41. A common battery cell size 42. Unit of current
46. Chemical symbol for radon 47. PC follower 51. Radio signals from the cosmos
(abbr.) 52. Chemical symbol for lanthanum 54. Chemical symbol for copper
55. Bandwidth (abbr.) 58. Length times width 60. Automatic Testing, Evaluation &
Reporting (abbr.) 62. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices 63. Key feature
in a high level overvoltage protection device 64. World's 1st fully electronic
digital computer (abbr.) 67. Frequency unit 68. FCC Part 15 rules apply in
this band (abbr.) 69. Cellphone band directly above DCS 72. Decimeter (abbr.)
73. UMTS terrestrial radio access (abbr.) 74. Chemical symbol for cobalt 80.
PC follower 81. Chemical symbol for dysprosium |
See solution below
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