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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 |
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