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1. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
3. Electrical connection point
9. Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code (abbr.)
13. Chemical symbol
for radon
14. 3 GHz to 30 GHz (abbr.)
15. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.)
17. File name extension for
an ASCII file
20. Chemical symbol for cobalt
22. Ad-hoc on demand distance vector (abbr.)
24. Method
of sending high-speed digital signals on electric distribution wires, a Ham's nemesis (abbr.)
25. Unit of inductance
(abbr.)
27. Aerodynamic opposition to thrust
30. Chemical symbol for silicon
31. Type of flip-flop
32. Ham's code for "What is the correct time?"
33. Suzanne _______, "EDN" magazine editor
34. Communication
between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere
36. CPS
37. Weight (abbr.)
38. Ground
fault interrupter (abbr.)
40. He came up with 6.02E23 as the number of "entities" in a mole of anything
45. Its chemical symbol is Fe
48. One port of an amplifier
49. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)
50. The "O" in ROM
51. Circuit interrupters
52. Unit of weight
54. Type of current
56. Chemical symbol
for nickel
57. Unit of admittance
58. Resistor used to drain voltage off of a high potential supply
63.
Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
64. Chemical symbol for holmium
65. Unit of capacitance
(abbr.)
67. Martin ____, "Test & Measurement World" magazine editor
69. Type of component package (abbr.)
70. BASIC looping keyword
71. Barry ____, "Microwave Product Digest" magazine editor
73. 300 Hz to 3 kHz
75. Programmable logic device (abbr.)
76. One port of an amplifier
78. Mr. de Forest's first name
79.
Chemical symbol for niobium
80. Patrick (Pat) ______, "Microwave Journal" magazine editor
81. Reflection
where light arriving from a single direction is reflected in a single direction
82. Chemical symbol for molybdenum |
1. Gary _____, "RF Design" magazine editor
2. Chemical symbol
for tin
4. A keyboard key
5. _____&Schwarz
6. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
7. A measure of receiver quality
(abbr.)
8. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)
10. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor (pl.)
11. High speed data over telephone lines (abbr.)
12. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
16. 36 in.
(abbr., pl.)
18. Tom _______, "High Frequency Electronics" magazine editor
19. Ham's code for "Net is Free
(not controlled)."
21. Stock symbol for Boeing
23. Form of digital encoding
24. Jack ______, "Microwaves &
RF" magazine editor
26. 3 MHz to 30 MHz
28. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
29. Unit of frequency
32. Ham's code for "Take over as net control station."
35. Max or min voltage of a waveform (abbr.)
36.
Its chemical symbol is Ho
39. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
40. Alternative name for Alpha Scorpii
41.
Variable Frequency Oscillator
42. Chemical symbol for gadolinium
43. Ph.D.
44. Chemical symbol for radon
46. Type of logic gate
47. Chemical symbol for berkelium
53. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
55. Chemical symbol for thulium
56. Type of logic gate
58. Bandwidth (abbr.)
59. On an even planed
60. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
61. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
62. Susan _____, "Microwave Journal"
magazine editor
64. Sample-and-____
66. Cooling device
68. Switch position
70. Cooling device
72.
Compress a computer file
74. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
75. Ratio of circumference to diameter
77.
Chemical symbol for neon
78. Chemical symbol for lutetium
79. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.) |
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