2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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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 6/13/2010](images/rf-cafe-crossword-6-13-2010.gif)
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
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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
![RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle solution](images/rf-cafe-crossword-6-13-2010s.gif)
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