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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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Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.
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Nov 28, Nov 21,
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Oct 31, Oct 24,
Oct 17, Oct 10,
Oct 3 - Sep 26,
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Jul 25, Jul 18,
Jul 11, Jul 4 -
Jun 27, Jun 20,
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May 30, May 23,
May 16, May 9,
May 2 - Apr 25,
Apr 18, Apr 11,
Apr 4 - Mar 28,
Mar 21, Mar 14,
Mar 7 - Feb 28,
Feb 21, Feb 14,
Feb 7 - Jan 31,
Jan 24, Jan 17,
Jan 10, Jan 3
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ACROSS
1. Opposite of an insulator (pl.)
9. Unit of frequency
11. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)
12. Shorthand
for oxygen
13. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
14. Return-to-Zero (abbr.)
16. Chemical symbol for
antimony
19. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)
21. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor
23. Semiconductor
and calculator company (abbr.)
25. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)
27. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe
visitors
29. Applied ____ Research (AWR), RF simulator company in El Segundo, CA
31. European equivalent
to the U.L.
32. Chemical symbol for platinum
33. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping
(abbr.)
35. Internet protocol (abbr.)
36. Type of current
37. Nordic Mobile Telephone
38. BER, 8 bits
at a time
40. The "H" in UHF
42. Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator (abbr.)
44. Error checking scheme
(abbr.)
45. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide
46. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
47. Chemical symbol for
polonium
48. ____ Technologies, RF module maker in Merlin, OR
50. Part of a FOR loop
51. Modulation type
(abbr.)
52. Stock symbol for RF Micro Devices
54. Chemical symbol for scandium
55. Chemical symbol for
aluminum
56. Chemical symbol for selenium
57. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)
59. Special diode type
that can be switched (abbr.)
62. Switch position
63. Chemical symbol for silver
64. Test equipment manufacturer,
now Agilent (abbr.)
66. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
68. Central Processing Unit
71. Direction of carbon fiber
strands
72. Filter vendor in Norwalk, CT
DOWN
2.
Opposite of I.D.
3. Chemical symbol for niobium
4. The "D" in CD
5. Chemical symbol for cobalt
6.
Mate to an RX
7. Chemical symbol for radon
8. Miniature threaded RF connector
9. Time taken for information
to pass through a circuit element (2 wds.)
10. Abbreviation for Hertz
15. 300 Hz to 3 kHz
17. Bulk Acoustic
Wave
18. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
20. The "T" in ATE
22. Set of poles
24. Highland __________,
card-based test equipment manufacturer in San Francisco, CA
26. Unit of length (abbr.)
28. Chemical symbol
for einsteinium
30. Abbreviation for peak voltage
31. CDMA Development Group (abbr.)
33. Direct Memory
Access (abbr.)
34. Measure of source / load mismatch (abbr.)
37. Chemical symbol for nobelium
39. High-speed
logic family
40. Base 16 number system (abbr.)
41. Galilean moon
43. Volt-ohmmeter (abbr.)
44. Z-____,
frequency source company in San Diego, CA
45. Low- to mid- frequency connectors
47. Unit of capacitance
(abbr.)
49. Network department (abbr.)
50. Chemical symbol for tantalum
52. Government program to bring
electricity to farms (abbr.)
53. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)
58. Foot/12
60. Chemical symbol
for cesium
61. Unit of resistance
63. A common battery cell size
65. Ratio of circumference to diameter
66. Chemical symbol for erbium
67. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
69. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
70. Unit of time (abbr.)
See solution below
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