11/30/2005 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

Take a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.

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ACROSS 1 Premier zero-phase-hit oscillator vendor in Rockleigh, NJ (2 words) 11 Unit of current 12 Ratio of circumference to diameter 13 Chemical symbol for iron 14 Carrier-to-Noise Ratio 16 Hydrogen ____ cell 18 Network device 20 To not pass a production test 22 Band between RF and BB 24 Chemical symbol for tin 26 Low Noise Amplifier 28 Part of this website's name 29 Related to FM by a derivative 30 Code Division Multiple Access 32 RF resistor vendor in Boone, NC 34 Intermodulation Distortion 36 Internet mail protocol, abbr. 38 Electromagnetic Interference 39 Army-Navy spec., abbr. 40 One component of a fiberglass substrate 43 Mechanical drawing reference plane, abbr. 45 Part of a conditional statement, pl. 46 Logic gate where all 1s at the input generates a 1 at the output, pl. 48 Type of memory 49 Digital Communication System 51 Digital data storage unit 53 Home country of RF Cafe 54 Opposite of a "high" 55 Receiver front-end component 56 Coefficient of Lift 57 Reliability measure, abbr. 59 Antenna gain unit, abbr. 61 Type of digital filter topology, abbr. 62 Counter ElectroMotive Force 64 Type of chart 65 300 kHz to 3 MHz 67 A negatively charged ion 69 Front edge of a wing, abbr. 70 Online service 72 Measurement standard body, abbr. 74 A figure of merit in a receiver, abbr. 76 Official engineering change document, abbr. 78 Temperature-compensated Crystal Oscillator 79 Test Equipment 80 Super glue, abbr. 82 RF systems company in Rochester, NY, abbr. 84 Semiconductor and calculator company 85 Integrated Circuit 86 Short for terminal 88 _____-Carlo analysis 89 Cellular Digital Packet Data 91 Surface Mount Device 93 Type of flip-flop 94 Modulation type 95 Broadband Over Power Lines, a Ham's nemesis 97 Amplifier vendor in Souderton, PA	DOWN 1 Electromagnetic 2 Filter type, abbr. 3 Infinite resistance 4 1/000 of an inch 5 Wireless phone region 6 Popular science series on PBS 7 Switch position 8 Equipment 9 High-speed logic family, abbr. 10 Chemical symbol for tin 11 Dilbert's female co-worker 15 Increases voltage linearly 17 World's only remaining superpower 19 Boolean operator, pl. 21 Band between RF and BB, pl. 23 Frequency Division Multiple Access 25 Infrared 27 Home state of Los Alamos lab 29 4-letter abbreviation for Teflon 31 Fractions of a millennium 32 One port of an amplifier 33 Type of overvoltage protection circuit 34 One of the simple machines (a plane) 35 Type of current 37 Connector supplier in Oyster Bay, NY 39 Chemical symbol for arsenic 41 Electromagnetic, abbr. 42 Opposite of O.D. 44 30 kHz to 300 kHz 47 SSB x 2 48 Archaic unit of length 50 Received signal measurement that affects BER 52 Current-voltage phase mnemonic, abbr. 57 Extraction place for metal ores 58 Usually shares the dial with AM 60 Chemical symbol for indium 61 Galilean moon 62 European equivalent to the U.L. 63 An ellipse has two of them 64 Routes traveled by RF signals 66 A BPF spec. 68 Integrated Services Digital Network 69 Local Oscillator 71 As opposed to remote 73 Current-voltage phase mnemonic, abbr. 75 Noise Figure 77 A LP filter spec 78 End of soldering iron 81 Ham radio organization, abbr. 82 The most frequently occurring number in a series of numbers 83 Network configuration 84 Time Division Multiple Access 86 Time Division Multiplexing 87 Degree of IC sophistication, abbr. 89 Software engineering tool, abbr. 90 Relative power level unit, abbr. 92 1/000 of an amp 96 Unit of acidity
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