2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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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![RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, February 14, 2010](images/rf-cafe-crossword-puzzle-2-14-2010.gif)
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ACROSS
1. Setting a steady-state voltage 7. Resistor manufacturer in Yankton, SD 11. RF design consultant in
Rochester, NY 13. A compiler directive 16. Type of data storage IC 17. Workplace safety group (abbr.)
20. Base Station Transceivers (abbr.) 21. Chemical symbol for mendelevium 23. Unit of time (abbr.) 24.
Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net." 25. Chemical symbol for ruthenium 26. Method of connecting
redundant power supplies 27. 1E6 bits per second 29. Upward force generated by an airfoil 31. Power
amplifier & antenna company in Ronkonkoma, NY (3-letter abbr.)
32. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.) 33. The "V" in VLF
35. Front edge of a wing (abbr.) 36. Type of chart used to plot immittance 37. Mates to plugs 38.
Morse Code for "from" 39. Radio signal route 40. Chemical symbol for silicon 41. The Microwave Office
software company (abbr.) 43. Ham radio organization (abbr.) 45. Type of microwave diode 46. Chemical
symbol for nobelium 47. Chemical symbol for erbium 48. Below ELF 49. Chemical symbol for chlorine
50. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 51. Error checking scheme (abbr.) 53. More than one FET
55. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.) 57. Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (abbr.)
59. EM software company in N. Syracuse, NY 62. Miniature RF connectors 63. Term for reduction of receiver
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DOWN
1. Chemical symbol for bromine 2. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)
3. Change connector type
4. Adds two or more inputs 5. Opposite of O.D. 6. Chemical symbol for neon 8. Astronomical Unit (93E6
miles) 9. Opposite of MSB
10. RF/microwave software vendor 12. Femtohenry (abbr.) 14. Type of buried controlled impedance PCB trace
(pl.) 15. A complex quantity that can describe either impedance or admittance 17. The "O" in ROM 18.
Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.) 19. ______ House, technical book publisher 22. Relative power level
unit (abbr.) 28. Metric length unit 30. Area on a shaft for accommodating a setscrew (pl.) 31.
Precision landing system (abbr.)
33. ______, passive RF component manufacturer in Huntersville, NC (1 wd + 1 abbr.) 34. Chemical symbol for
rhodium 36. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.) 37. Intel x86 command for " jump if above"
39. Oscillator type that is referenced to an external source (abbr., pl.) 40. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
42. An 8-bit unit (pl.) 44. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type) 45. First American to orbit
the earth - John ... 49. Solid of rotation whose sides are the hypotenuse of a right triangle 52. Airflow
rate (abbr.) 54. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 56. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc. 58. Type of current
flow (abbr.) 59. Chemical symbol for selenium
60. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 61. Test equipment (abbr.) |
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![RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, February 14, 2010](images/rf-cafe-crossword-puzzle-2-14-2010s.gif)
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