2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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![RF Cafe - Science & Engineering Crossword Puzzle, 9-5-2010](images/rf-cafe-crossword-9-5-2010.gif)
ACROSS
1. Engineering firm in Middletown, OH, that
provides RF subsystem design services 6. Audible emanations 9. ___ Industries, RF switch & attenuator
manufacturer located in Indianapolis, IN 12. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.) 13. PC follower
14. Stock symbol for Boeing
15. Decimeter (abbr.) 17. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc. 18. Chemical symbol for californium 19. Numerical
prefix meaning 10 (var.) 21. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.) 23. Chemical symbol for calcium 24.
Add catalyst 25. Electronic assembly transport container 27. Foot/12 29. _____+phase, filter vendor in
Norwalk, CT 31. Chemical symbol for erbium 32. Moon of Saturn discovered in 1672 34. Junk e-mail
36. Chemical symbol for strontium 38. Outside shells 40. Path followed by a heavenly body around a star
(pl.) 44. Unit of length (abbr.) 46. Ham's code for "Answer in prearranged order." 47. Chemical symbol
for tantalum 48. Army-Navy specification prefix 49. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region
(abbr.) 50. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors 52. Last stage in transmitter (abbr., pl.)
55. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 57. Its chemical symbol is Os 58. First magnitude star in
Auriga 60. Chemical symbol for silicon 62. Component 63. Release control over 65. Chemical symbol
for thallium 67. Artech _____, technical book publisher 70. One who DXs 73. 10-Gb Attachment Units
Interface 74. Equivalent circuit type using a current source and parallel resistor 76. Chemical symbol for
molybdenum 78. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.) 79. Type of programmable device (abbr.)
80. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 81. International Reply Coupon 83. __ Dude, premier design consultant in
Rochester, NY 84. Type of current 86. Shorthand for oxygen 88. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY
(abbr.) 91. The Microwave Office software company (abbr.) 92. A line on a map that joins points of equal
pressure 93. _______-Photonics, RF components & design services company in Palm City, FL
DOWN
2. Unit of time (abbr.)
3. Weight (abbr.) 4. Computer character set (abbr.) 5. Chemical symbol for europium
6. The gaseous state of water 7. Chemical symbol for niobium 8. Digital attenuator company in Carson, CA
10. Type of modulation (abbr.) 11. Unit of magnetic flux 13. Type of data conversion device (abbr.) 15.
Printer resolution abbreviation 16. ____ Microwave, RF component company in FuJian, China 20. Mr. von
Helmholtz's first name
21. _____-wise linear 22. A BPF specification (abbr.) 24. Chemical symbol for argon
26. Method of connecting redundant power supplies (pl.) 28. ________ Technology, high precision analog
measurement instrument company located in San Francisco, CA 30. Small representative graphic 33. A common
battery cell size 34. Network configuration type
35. Unit of time (abbr.) 37. __ Micro Devices, RFIC manufacturer in Greensboro, NC 39. Precision landing
system (abbr.) 41. Chemical symbol for radium 42. Network department (abbr.) 43. Adding an impurity to
a semiconductor 45. The "T" in ATE 46. Ham's code for "Entire net stand by." 51. Electromagnetic
(abbr.) 52. Chemical symbol for plutonium 53. Volts divided by resistance 54. _____ Microwave East
(part of L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY 56. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
57. Method of connecting redundant power supplies 59. 30 kHz to 300 kHz 61. International
Telecommunications Union 64. The "E" in EHF 66. ____ Technologies, RF module maker in Merlin, OR 67.
Maintains a voltage for sampling 68. Switch position
69. Electrical enclosure company in Rochester, MN 71. Chemical symbol for xenon 72. RF IC manufacturer
headquartered in South Korea (abbr.) 75. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.)
77. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.) 82. Pure carrier (abbr.) 85. Chemical symbol for cobalt 87.
Chemical symbol for chlorine 89. Chemical symbol for platinum 90. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
See solution below
![RF Cafe - Science & Engineering Crossword Puzzle, 9-5-2010 - solution](images/rf-cafe-crossword-9-5-2010s.gif)
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