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1. PNPs and NPNs
8. Femtohenry,
abbr.
10. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services
11. Liquid cooling agent
13. Sample group
14. A filter
parameter (# of stages)
15. Infrared, abbr.
16. Hub of
the solar system
17. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
18. Chemical symbol for argon
19. Common Gateway Interface
20. Army-Navy spec., abbr.
21. U.K-based defense contractor
22. Chemical symbol for radium
23. Logarithmic reflectivity
unit
24. 36 inches
25. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
27. Part of a FOR loop
28. Motorola's "Digital ___"
29.
Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K)
31. Chemical symbol
for lanthanum
33. Direct Memory Access
35. High frequency
semiconductor, abbr.
36. Type of amp used in an RX front-end,
abbr.
38. Electromagnetic, abbr.
39. Antenna, abbr.
40. 10^1 numerical prefix
41. FCC Part 15 rules apply here
42. Test Point
43. Network department, abbr.
44. 1/000
of an inch
45. Semiconductor and calculator company, abbr.
46. Color #5
48. Miniature threaded RF connector
49. Sets
of poles
50. Small DIP package
51. Chemical symbol for
tin
52. Type of capacitor dielectrics
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1. Balanced-to-unbalanced device
2. Small representative graphic
3. Push To Talk
4. Unix,
Linux or Windows
5. The Microwave Office company, abbr.
6. Aircraft tracking systems
7. Solid angle units
9. Perpendicular
to vertical
12. Chemical symbol for erbium
14. Used logic
gates
15. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
16. The GPS
system is made up of them
17. A type of very low noise level
amplifier
19. Chemical symbol for cadmium
21. Range of
frequencies
24. Yard, abbr.
26. Common form of energy
that arises from the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules
30. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
32. American National
Standards Institute
34. Unit of current
35. A primary
amplifier parameter
37. Modulation type, abbr.
40. 2/3
of a triac, pl.
44. Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
46. Chemical symbol for gallium
47. Equivalent Series Resistance
48. Semiconductor On Insulator, abbr.
50. Type of component
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