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Electronics Magazines & Editors Crossword Puzzle
August 2, 2015

This week's crossword puzzle has the theme of electronics and engineering magazines and their editors. I have to plead guilty at not knowing who the editor-in-chief (EiC) of many of the publications were. After so often reading the names of the many authors and technical editors and contributing editors, etc., getting printed every month, keeping track is difficult. You should recognize all the magazine names since they are our industry's primary publications. Apologies to Microwaves & RF magazine (Nancy K. Friedrich, EiC), and to High Frequency Electronics (Scott Spencer, EiC), for not including them in the puzzle. The fact is, though, that the more words I insert at the outset, the more difficult it is for the software to complete the crossword. It took me nearly two hours to get this one done Looks like I'll have to do a second round at some point.

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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

Engineering Magazines & Editors Crossword Puzzle for August 2, 2015 - RF Cafe

Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.

ACROSS DOWN
1. Electronics magazine (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.), Patrick Hindle, EiC
8. Chemical symbol for arsenic
9. Opposite of O.D.
11. A calculus operation (abbr.)
12. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)
14. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
15. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
16. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
18. Infrared (abbr.)
19. Electronics magazine (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.), Julien Happich, EiC
22. Solid state power amplifier (abbr.)
24. 1e3 uV
25. Electronics magazine GPS + _____, Alan Cameron, EiC
26. Engineering magazine (acronym), Janine E. Mooney, EiC
30. Network department (abbr.)
31. Arrange data in a table
34. Chemical symbol for mendelevium
35. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)
36. A common battery cell size
37. Miniature RF connector
39. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
40. Abbreviation for what the lead executives of engineering magazines are
42. Crystal filter type (abbr.)
44. ARRL's primary magazine - Becky Schoenfeld, W1BXY, EiC
45. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
47. Mr. de Forest's first name
49. Input intercept point (abbr.)
51. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)
53. Rádio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)
55. Chemical symbol for nobelium
56. International Telecommunications Union
57. Current-voltage phase mnemonic
59. Metric system (abbr.)
60. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
62. Switch position
63. Electronics magazine from IEEE - Susan Hassler, EiC
64. Type of modulation (abbr.)
65. Phenomenon responsible for damaging electronic components (abbr.)
66. One tier of a PCB
69. Unit of length (abbr.)
71. Low altitude earth orbit
72. The "As" in GaAs
75. Start frequency (abbr.)
76. Ham's code for "Are you busy?"
77. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
79. Personal Digital Cellular
81. 30 Hz to 300 Hz
82. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)
83. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
85. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)
86. Electronics magazine, ____ & _____ (2 wds.), Brian Bergeron, EiC
2. Device used to contact areas on bare semiconductor circuits (2 wds., pl.)
3. JavaScript (abbr.)
4. Like electrons in a n unionized atom
5. Chemical symbol for nickel
6. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
7. Electronics magazine (acronym), Graham Prophet, EiC
10. BlackBerry or Jordana for example (abbr., pl.)
13. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
17. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)
18. An international standards-setting body (abbr.)
20. Multichannel multipoint distribution service
21. 1.602E-19 Joules
22. Type of power supply
23. Chemical symbol for aluminum
27. Singulated piece of IC wafer
28. ____RF, passive RF component manufacturer in Huntersville, NC
29. Facsimile
32. On a waveform, a _____ min or max
33. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)
34. ______ Marietta, or Lockheed ______
36. Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.)
38. 1E6 nanoseconds
39. "Calling any amateur radio station"
41. The "D" in CAD
43. BER, 8 bits at a time
46. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (abbr.)
48. World's 1st fully electronic digital computer
50. A natural or synthetic compound of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units (pl.)
52. Chemical symbol for ruthenium
54. Type of current flow (abbr.)
58. The variation in the width of the base in a BJT due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector (2 wds.)
59. Inductor
60. Chemical symbol for neptunium
61. Positive voltage lead color
63. "Texting" (abbr.)
64. More than one FET
67. Chemical symbol for aluminum
68. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
69. Chemical symbol for francium
70. Non-standard abbreviation for a small unit of electric potential
72. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.)
73. Equalizer (abbr.)
74. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)
78. Electronics magazine (acronym), Karen Hoppe, EiC, & Barry Manz, Technical Editor
80. Computer "brain" (abbr.)
84. PC follower
85. Chemical symbol for thallium

See solution below

 

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