5/15/2006 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 Mate to an Rx 2 Occurs in an m-ary coded transceiver 11 Test equipment manufacturer, abbr. 13 Audible frequency parameter 14 Min-_____ and Max-_____ in Karnaugh tables 15 Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr. 17 Reliability measure, abbr. 18 Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit 19 Morse Code for "from" 20 Telephony acronym for Ring, No Answer 22 Unit of time, abbr. 23 Electromotive Force 25 Analog-to-Digital 26 Logarithmic unit of power, abbr. 27 300 Hz to 3 kHz 28 Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying 30 Opposite of a LO 31 Test equipment, abbr. 32 Digital Signal Processor 34 Powers pneumatic devices 37 Modulation type 39 Webmaster of RF Cafe 40 1e-6 mA 41 Cubic Feet per Minute 42 Direct Memory Access 43 Type of flip-flop 45 Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo 46 One small part of this display 50 Super glue, abbr. 52 What RFTEJerry, the RF Cafe T&M Forum moderator, works on, abbr. 54 Start Frequency, abbr. 56 Person responsible for program spending, abbr. 57 An electron spin orientation 59 Unit of admittance 61 Last stage in a transmitter, abbr. 62 Power distribution system 64 Network configuration 66 Upper frequency, abbr. 67 Prefix for device that translates electrical energy into mechanical energy, and vice versa 68 Connector vendor in Frenchtown, NJ 69 Component of product cost, abbr. 70 Closed-loop amplifier configuration 71 Chemical symbol for beryllium	DOWN 1 Trans European Trunked RAdio 2 Passive Intermodulation 3 Web page language, abbr. 4 Advanced Communication Technologies and Services 5 3 GHz to 30 GHz 6 Voltage limiter 7 Asynchronous Transfer Mode 8 Electric enclosure standard setter, abbr. 9 Power distribution system 10 Akin to ESD, RFI, EMI, etc. 12 Pseudomorphic High-Electron-Mobility Transistor 16 One port of an amplifier 19 Logarithmic ratio, abbr. 21 Mean, geometric, rolling, etc. 23 Equalizer, abbr. 24 Start Frequency, abbr. 26 Schematic, wiring _______, etc. 28 The "741" was the first production one 29 Filter vendor in Salisbury, MD 31 Add solder to tip of iron 32 Relative power level unit, abbr. 33 Below ELF 35 Big Blue 36 Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr. 38 Akin to EE, PE, AE, etc., pl. 44 A gaseous substance that can be liquefied by pressure alone 47 Integrated Circuit 48 Famous craft knife manufacturer 49 Electromagnetic, abbr. 51 Unit of energy 53 Professor's student instructor, abbr. 54 Like some radicals 55 Dimension 57 UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access 58 Set of poles 60 3 MHz to 30 MHz 62 Image file format 63 Department of Defense 64 Crystal filter type, abbr. 65 Positive voltage lead color
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