This custom RF Cafe electronics-themed crossword puzzle for December 3rd contains
words and clues which pertain exclusively to the subjects of electronics, science,
physics, mechanics, engineering, power distribution, astronomy, chemistry, etc.
If you do see names of people or places, they are intimately related to the aforementioned
areas of study. As always, you will find no references to numbnut movie stars or
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1. 360 degrees of phase rotation 5. Communication
type that method makes use of electromagnetic waves (pl.) 10. 2 to the 70th power
(2^70) bytes 16. Range of frequencies 17. Keyboard key 18. 300 kHz to 3
MHz 20. Charged particles 21. Chemical symbol for radon 23. Yard (abbr.)
25. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.) 26. Modulation type (abbr.)
28. Singulated piece of IC wafer 29. Chemical symbol for iron 30. Effect (named
after its discoverer) that is the variation in the width of the base in a BJT due
to a variation in the applied base-to-collector 33. Rádio Nacional de Angola
(abbr.) 34. Radio frequency interference (abbr.) 36. One factor of a polynomial
37. Cause the temperature to drop 38. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)
39. Maximum voltages in a waveform 41. Charged particle 43. Logic family (abbr.)
44. Equalizer (abbr.) 45. The shape of a circularly polarized antenna 47.
Oriented at a 90 degree angle to a reference 50. Centimeter (abbr.) 53. Chemical
symbol for tantalum 54. Electron beam pattern method used in CRTs (2 wds.)
59. Electrical unit of potential difference (pl.) 62. 1.602E-19 Joules 64.
Minutes of Use (abbr.) 65. Send Morse Code 66. Software engineering tool (abbr.)
67. Relating to the sun 70. Big Blue 71. Stock symbol for Boeing 73. Imperfection
in a crystal lattice 75. Newest buzz phrase for ubiquitous remote control and
monitoring of everything (abbr.) 76. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.) 77.
Trigger diode that conducts current only after its breakdown voltage has been exceeded
momentarily (pl.) 78. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 79. High Data Rate
81. Unit of time (abbr.) 83. Using Earth's natural satellite as a passive reflector
to establish a signal path (abbr.) 84. Chemical symbol for lithium 85. Unit
of inductance (abbr.) 88. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
90. Army-Navy specification prefix 91. Voltage-current phase mnemonic 93.
Internet mail protocol (abbr.) 95. High power microwave amplifier 96. Screw
feature that gives it holding power 97. Min______ and Max_____, in a Karnaugh
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1. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.) 2. Unlicensed
FCC Part 95 realm for personal and business radio use (abbr.) 3. One tier of
a PCB 4. Last statement in a BASIC program 6. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
7. Recovers the modulation from the RF signal 8. S12 or S21 (abbr.) 9. Less
than 11. Adding solder to the tip of a soldering iron 12. Part of a FOR loop
13. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.) 14. Filter type that blocks frequencies
in a specified band (abbr.) 15. Chemical symbol for europium 19. ___-back
transformer 22. Chemical symbol for neodymium 24. 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 26. Colorado Springs military
school (abbr.) 27. International phonetic alphabet letter "M" 29. An ellipse
has two of them 31. Online service 32. Read-only (abbr.) 33. Type of flip-flop
34. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 35. Geometrical figure defined
as a curve in which every point is equidistant from a fixed point (pl.) 38. milliampere-hour
(abbr.) 39. Control and monitoring board 40. Circuit breaker vendor 42.
Unit of inductance (abbr.) 46. A coherent monochrome light source 48. Boob
tube (abbr.) 49. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
51. Device used to make contact with a point to be measured 52. Type of current
55. One port on a BJT 56. Add two or more inputs 57. Surrounding environmental
condition 58. _______ strength - measure of resistance from breaking 60. Applies
a lubricant 61. Chemical symbol for scandium 63. Telephony over computer networks
68. Line of Sight (abbr.) 69. PC follower 72. A common battery cell size
73. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.) 74. Color code for the number 9 77. Direct
Memory Access (abbr.) 80. Chemical symbol for ruthenium 82. U.K. equivalent
of the IEEE 84. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin 86. Stock symbol for Harris
Communications 87. Type of modulation (abbr.) 88. One port of an amplifier
89. Radio signals from the cosmos (abbr.) 91. Chemical symbol for erbium 92.
State where teen techno-sleuths Carl and Jerry lived (abbr.) 94. Chemical symbol
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