10/5/2006 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.

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ACROSS 1. A Ham's hobby 8. Logic gate 9. Transformer interwinding connection 11. One plate in a Li-Ion cell 15. Characters Per Inch, abbr. 17. Test equipment manufacturer 19. Constellation in which Canopus is located 20. Molecular building blocks 22. Opposite of I.D. 23. Roman numerals for eleven 24. A subatomic particle having a mass between that of an electron and a proton 26. Radio Amateurs of Canada, abbr. 28. Amp, mixer, upconverter, downconverter manufacturer in Hauppauge, NY 30. Unix, Linux or Windows 31. Symbol for tin 32. Local Oscillator 33. Chemical symbol for arsenic 35. Modulation type 37. Component of product cost, abbr. 38. Has units of radians 40. 30 Hz to 300 Hz 42. Incandescent bulbs, LEDs, fluorescent bulbs, etc. 44. Semiconductor and calculator company 46. European equivalent to the U.L. 47. Inductors 49. Attenuator topology 51. Type of current 52. A compiler directive 53. 3x frequency multiplier 55. An archaic unit of length 57. Audio Frequency, abbr. 58. The degree of magnetization of a material in response to a magnetic field	DOWN 2. Online service 3. Twinax + one 4. Asynchronous Transfer Mode, abbr. 5. 10^1 numerical prefix 6. TCP/__ 7. Electron flow from a glowing cathode to an anode in an evacuated glass bulb, 2 wds. 10. Zero ohms 12. Adjusts a potentiometer 13. Chemical symbol for mercury 14. Galilean moon 15. Instrument control panel 16. 24 hrs minus AM 18. A BlackBerry, for example, abbr. 20. Chemical symbol for arsenic 21. Implement for doing work 24. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 25. Having the same magnitude 27. International phonetic alphabet letter "C" 29. Indium Gallium Phosphor chemical symbol 34. Barrier between two physical entities 36. Aluminum, brass, copper, or steel, for example 39. Small unit of time 41. Laptop computer display type, abbr. 43. 1E6 ns 45. Theoretical 48. Unix, Linux or Windows 49. Time Interval, abbr. 50. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform, abbr. 53. Time Division Multiplexing, abbr. 54. Radio Frequency Interference, abbr. 55. One component of a complex number, abbr. 56. Logic gate
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