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 Caafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, 6-20-2010](images/rf-cafe-crossword-6-2010.gif)
ACROSS
1 Nuclear explosion byproduct harmful to electronic (abbr., pl.) 4. _______ Electronics, RF filter &
components manufacturer in Garfield, NJ 9. Multiprotocol Label Switching (abbr.)
12. Electrical safety organization (abbr.) 14. Unit of capacitance (abbr.) 15. Type of flip-flop 16.
Chemical symbol for iron 18. Advanced Test _________ Rentals, a company that leases lab equipment, in San
Diego, CA 23. Imaginary part of the opposition to current flow 28. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)
29. Software drafting tool (abbr.) 32. The nearest spiral galaxy 37. RF component distributor
40. Capacitor vendor in Greenville, SC 42. Electrical overstress (abbr.) 45. Digital storage
oscilloscope (abbr.) 47. RF switch & attenuator manufacturer located in Indianapolis, IN 49. Exponent
that returns the original number 51. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.) 52. Powers pneumatic devices
53. Adjust a pot 54. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane 55. Change connector type 59.
The "E" in EHF 62. Signal _________, a common piece of test equipment 68. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)
70. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net." 73. Man-made material 76. Shaping an object by forcing
material through a die 79. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.) 80. Chemical symbol for lead 82.
Electromagnetic (abbr.)
83. Chemical symbol for tin 84. National Television System Committee (abbr.) 85. _______ Engineering, RF
systems engineering firm in Middletown, OH, that provides RF subsystem design services 86. Adds two or more
inputs
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2. Minutes of Use (abbr.)
3. _____ conductor 5. Mate to a bolt 6. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
7. Chemical symbol for erbium 8. Bluetooth modules & ICs vendor headquartered in Cambridge, UK 9. The
"M" in CMOS 10. Computer communication scheme (abbr.) 11. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe
visitors 13. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin
16. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency 17. Chemical symbol for helium 19. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)
20. Band between RF and BB 21. Negation prefix 22. Unit of admittance 24. Last statement in a BASIC
program 25. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.) 26. European equivalent to the U.L.
27. State _______ - A type of drawing used in computer science and related fields to describe the behavior of
systems (pl.) 30. WWW browser 31. Morse Code for "from"
32. Army-Navy specification prefix 33. Sunshine ______, engineering consultant in Ramona, CA 34. The "E"
in FET 35. Type of current flow (abbr.) 36. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo 38. A star
that suddenly becomes much brighter and then gradually returns to its original brightness over a period of
weeks to years 39. ____ Equipment Connection, 40. ____ Microwave, RF component company in FuJian, China
41. 1E6 bits per second 43. Switch position 44. Chemical symbol for strontium 45. 10^1 numerical
prefix 46. Method of connecting redundant power supplies 47. JavaScript (abbr.) 48. Weight (abbr.)
49. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.) 50. Greek letter used for frequency
56. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 57. Chemical symbol for mercury 58. Chemical symbol for chromium 60.
Chemical symbol for xenon 61. RF IC manufacturer headquartered in South Korea (abbr.) 63.
Electromagnetic interference (abbr.) 64. Type of memory
65. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.) 66. Balun with both ports unbalanced (pl.)
67. Next to
68. Unit of length (abbr.) 69. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.) 70. Ham's code for "Shall I
send more slowly?" 71. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 72. Chemical symbol for polonium 73. Type of
component package (abbr.) 74. Logical negation operator
75. Central Processing Unit 76. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path;
moonbounce (abbr.) 77. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.) 78. 1e-6 mA
81. Bandwidth (abbr.) 82. 1.602E-19 Joules
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