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For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I create a new crossword puzzle that has a theme related to engineering, mathematics,
chemistry, physics, and other technical words. You will never be asked the name of a movie star unless he/she was involved in a technical endeavor (e.g., Hedy Lamarr). Enjoy!
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation,
pl. = plural, wds. = words
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.
1. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
4. Secondary cell using a liquid as an electrolyte
(2 wds.)
8. One system's phonetic letter "z"
11. Online service (acr.)
12. Abbreviation for "power"
13. Last stage in transmitter
(abbr., pl.)
15. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)
16. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)
17. Boob tube (abbr.)
18. Common
shorthand reference for a capacitor
21. Chemical symbol for neptunium
22. Parts per million (abbr.)
23. Monte-_____ analysis
25. Sporadic E-layer ionospheric propagation (hyph.)
26. __ + 18 Down, thw world's best engineering website
27. Chemical symbol for
cadmium
28. Type of vector product
29. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
31. A keyboard key
33. Morse Code for "from"
34. Filter type
(abbr.)
37. Chemical symbol for aluminum
39. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
40. Radio frequency interference (abbr.)
43. International
phonetic alphabet letter "K"
45. Its chemical symbol is Li
46. One factor of a polynomial
47. Control and monitoring board
48. Amateur Teleprinter Over Radio (abbr.)
49. One port on a FET
50. Configuring a switch to break electrical contact
54. A length
of transmission line that is open or shorted at one end
56. Direct Digital Synthesis (abbr.)
57. Type of flip-flop
58. Chemical
symbol for selenium
59. "Texting" (abbr.)
60. Word used in describing 2-D and 3-D object dimensions; i.e., 10 mm __ 25 mm
61.
Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)
63. Type of current
65. One axis of an ellipse
66. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
67. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
69. Device attached to an antenna mast which rotates it so that the antenna can
point in different directions
71. Computer character set (abbr.)
73. Country of RF Cafe's residency
76. Chemical symbol for arsenic
78. Nuclear explosion byproduct harmful to electronics (abbr.)
79. Unit of time (abbr.)
80. The "B" in BER
82. Nordic Mobile Telephone
83. Units of 1000 CPS
85. Type of computer display (abbr.)
86. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)
87. Transformer interwinding
connection
88. A fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole
89. Acronym
for path of a fast-circling satellite |
1. Useful distance between Tx and Rx
2. End of transmission (abbr.)
3. Circuit for maintaining constant
voltage (abbr.)
4. National Bureau of Standards radio station (time signals)
5. Chemical symbol for erbium
6. Filter type that
blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
7. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)
8. Hit a component with an electrostatic discharge
9.
Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)
10. Causes a voltage or current waveform to gradually die out
12. Positively doped silicon (hyph.)
14. Satellite milieu
18. 26 Across + ____, the world's best engineering website
19. Chemical symbol for argon
20. Type of programmable
device (abbr.)
23. Chemical symbol for chromium
24. Opposite of I.D.
30. Battery company
32. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
33. Degraded or destroyed performance
34. Chemical symbol for berkelium
35. Attenuator configuration (hyph.)
36. Area on a shaft
for accommodating a setscrew (pl.)
38. Chemical symbol for lithium
39. Chemical symbol for lutetium
40. Factor of a polynomial
41. Online venue for posting comments & reading replies
42. Network department (abbr.)
44. Exponent that returns the original
number
46. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
49. Chemical symbol for gadolinium
51. Unit of time (abbr.)
52. Mate
to a bolt
53. Unit of time (abbr.)
55. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
60. Term used to interrupt
a conversation on a repeater to indicate that there is an emergency or urgent message
61. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers
(abbr.)
62. Describes when a synchronous motor loses phase lock
64. _____ factor, the peak-to-average waveform value
65. Log onto
a hard drive
66. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
68. Ratio of circumference to diameter
70. Proportion of two numbers
72. Centimeter
(abbr.)
74. Miniature threaded RF connector
75. Test document for verifying proper function (acr.)
77. 3 GHz to 30 GHz
79.
Internet address (abbr.)
80. Method of sending high-speed digital signals on electric distribution wires, a Ham's nemesis (acr.)
81. Current-voltage phase mnemonic
84. Chemical symbol for zirconium
85. Chemical symbol for calcium |
See solution below
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