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RF & Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle
August 9, 2015 |
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This week's crossword puzzle, as with all RF Cafe puzzles,
uses only words pertaining to engineering, science, mathematics, mechanics, chemistry, astronomy, etc. You will
never find a reference to some obscure geological feature or city, or be asked to recall the name of some numbnut
movie star or fashion designer. Enjoy!
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. =
acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words
1. The Brits call them valves
5. Type of high frequency
diode (abbr.)
10. Individual components like transistors, diodes, resistors, etc.
16. World's largest
annual RF and microwave industry convention outside of the United States (abbr.)
17. World's largest
yearly convention of gadget and device manufacturers (abbr.)
18. __ + 20 Across is the world's most
popular engineering website
20. 18 Across + ____ is the world's most popular engineering website
21.
Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
23. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
25. U.K.
equivalent of the IEEE
26. Decimeter (abbr.)
28. 3-phase transformer configuration
29. PC follower
30. Greek letter, used to indicate summation
33. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices
34.
Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
36. Martin ____, "Test & Measurement World" magazine
editor (c2009)
37. Thing in a bill of material
38. Common gateway interface (abbr.)
39. _____
Instruments, a programmable delay line manufacturer in Bellevue, WA
41. Ham's code for "What is your
location?"
43. Minutes of Use (abbr.)
44. Unit of length (abbr.)
45. The result of a successful
search
47. Tuning step
50. Modulation type (abbr.)
53. Chemical symbol for chromium
54.
Inserting a doping ion into a semiconductor lattice
59. Sporadic E-layer ionospheric propagation (hyph.)
62. 1.602E-19 Joules
64. Singulated piece of IC wafer
65. Trim a piece of Kapton tape to length
66.
Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)
67. Device attached to an antenna mast which rotates it so that the antenna
can point in different directions
70. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)
71. Boob tube (abbr.)
73.
Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)
75. Display type
76. World's first satellite navigation
system, abbr.
77. Alloy of copper and zinc
78. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
79. Unit of
length equal to 5.5 yards
81. Test point (abbr.)
83. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
84. Galilean moon
85. Chemical symbol for xenon
88. Fourth largest asteroid
90. Chemical symbol for platinum
91.
Logic family (abbr.)
93. Miniature RF connector (pl.)
95. The rotating part of a motor (pl.)
96.
Inventor of the incandescent light bulb
97. Troubleshooting software |
1. Base of the binary number system
2. Chemical symbol for
beryllium
3. Swiss mathematician who extensively studied complex numbers
4. Miniature threaded RF
connector
6. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
7. Archaic retirement plan
8. Chemical symbol for
arsenic
9. Adjusted
11. Trigger circuit to convert a given waveform to a square wave output
12.
Chemical symbol for calcium
13. Radio frequency interference (abbr.)
14. BS__ - the degree held by
many RF Cafe visitors
15. Type of component package (abbr.)
19. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
22.
Pure carrier (abbr.)
24. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
26. High speed data over telephone lines
(abbr.)
27. Reliability measure (abbr.)
29. Additive white gaussian noise
31. International
Telecommunications Union
32. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo
33. Chemical symbol for
silver
34. Read-only (abbr.)
35. A level-triggered circuit that 'cleans' up digital signal edges
38. Computer "brain" (abbr.)
39. Part of CRC
40. The "Y" in YAG
42. 3 MHz to 30 MHz
46. One
cutoff frequency specification for a bandpass filter
48. Type of flip flop
49. Chemical symbol for
selenium
51. Volts, meters, pints, pounds, eg.
52. Chemical symbol for bismuth
55. Between-series
connector
56. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.)
57. Type of aircraft dope
58.
Triangular joint filler added for strength (pl.)
60. Small DIP package (abbr.)
61. Last stage in a
transmitter (abbr.)
63. Electrical unit of potential difference
68. ___/IP scheme for networked
connectivity
69. Opposite of I.D.
72. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)
73. Electronics Industry
Association (abbr.)
74. Device used to make contact with a point to be measured
77. Graphics file
extension
80. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
82. Mate to a bolt
84. Intermodulation
distortion (abbr.)
86. Unit of energy
87. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
88. Intel x86 command for " jump
if above"
89. Greek letter used for frequency
91. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)
92.
Local Oscillator (abbr.)
94. Chemical symbol for antimony |
See solution below
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