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1. A VSWR killer
in coaxial cables
6. Input intercept point (abbr.)
9.
Vacuum tube with five electrodes
15. Switch position
16.
High-speed circuit-switched data (abbr.)
18. Chart types
20. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
21. Stock symbol for Harris Communications
23. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)
24. Big Blue
25. Two of these in a whole
26. Abbreviation for minimum
voltage
28. Logical negation operator
30. Radio Amateurs
of Canada (abbr.)
32. U.S. military organization (abbr.)
33. Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator (abbr.)
34. Apollo
11 astronaut ____ Armstrong
37. Mate to a bolt
39. The
"C" in AC or DC
43. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
44. Chemical symbol for silver
45. Permissible deviation
from a specified value normally expressed as a percentage
48. Joins end-to-end
50. Chemical symbol for thulium
52.
Chemical symbol for thallium
53. The design component of
total product cost (abbr.)
54. Chemical symbol for neodymium
56. Unit of time (abbr.)
57. 1/000 of an inch
59. Modern
battlefield technique (abbr.)
62. Internet protocol (abbr.)
64. Change connector type
67. Put a new program on a computer
71. Type of current flow (abbr.)
73. This website's title,
with 78 Across
74. Name of the third series in the spectrum
of hydrogen
76. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)
77. UMTS
terrestrial radio access (abbr.)
78. With 73 Across, this
website's title
79. Government program to bring electricity
to farms (abbr.)
80. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
82.
Base of the decimal number system
84. BS__ - the degree held
by many RF Cafe visitors
85. ____ Meet, a Ham's flea market
87. Stock symbol for Hewlett Packard
90. Degree of IC sophistication
(abbr.)
91. Type of data storage IC
92. A common battery
cell size
93. Swap ____, a Ham's flea market
95. Shorthand
for troposphere
98. Numerical basis for decibels (abbr.)
99. Circuit board metallization shapes
100. Lowest power
level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)
101. Easily evaporated
at normal temperatures |
1. Product of
force x distance from a point
2. Switch position
3. Band
between RF and BB
4. Another word for each complete winding
of an inductor
5. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
6. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame
7. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
8. Greek letter
10. 1.602E-19 Joules
11. Attenuator topology (hyph.)
12.
Lubricant
13. Impurity in a semiconductor
14. Chemical
symbol for einsteinium
16. High Data Rate
17. Logarithmic
ratio (abbr.)
19. A false signal produced in a superheterodyne
receiver’s circuitry
22. System for underwater navigation
(pl.)
25. Having power applied (slang)
26. Voice of America
27. 1/1000 prefix
29. Tweak a filter for the correct response
31. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane
32. The system than
converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.)
35.
End of transmission (abbr.)
36. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
38. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)
40. Chemical symbol
for ruthenium
41. Stock symbol for Raytheon
42. European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (abbr.)
46. Chemical
symbol for radon
47. Last keyword in a BASIC subroutine (pl.)
49. Unstable edge phenomenon
51. Transitions from solid to
liquid phase
55. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
57. Stock symbol for Microsoft
58. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
60. BER, 8 bits at a time
61. Ties a bundle of wires together
63. A digital counter input line to establish an initial value
64. A common battery cell size
65. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
66. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.)
68. A measure
of receiver quality (abbr.)
69. Chemical symbol for lutetium
70. Degrade or destroy performance
72. Software engineering
tool (abbr.)
74. Peak envelope power (abbr.)
75. Narrowband
Advanced Mobile Phone System (abbr.)
79. The "R" in BER
81. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)
83. Forerunner to
NASA
86. Term used in soldering to achieve the condition
that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to
melt the solder so it flows over the surface
88. Chemical
symbol for platinum
89. Ham's code for "Is my transmission
being interfered with?"
92. Online service
93. 1/000 of
an amp (abbr.)
94. Chemical symbol for tin
96. Opposite
of I.D.
97. Galilean moon
98. Chemical symbol for lithium |
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