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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
November 8, 2015 |
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This week's Wireless Engineering crossword puzzle contains the usual collection of science, math, and engineering terms. Also included are
a couple topics that have been in the technical news headlines lately and the names of two new companies advertising on RF Cafe
(clues labeled with asterisk *). Enjoy.
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym,
abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words
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1. Greek symbol commonly used to represent angles
5. Alloy of copper and tin
10. Time required to transition up or down in voltage (2
wds., pl.)
16. 5 work days
17. 30 GHz to 300 GHz
18. Chemical symbol for xenon
20. Termination
21. Home state of Los Alamos lab
(abbr.)
23. Chemical symbol for silicon
25. Unit of weight
26. Abbreviation for minimum voltage
28. ___ + Electronics, new RF Cafe
advertiser*
29. Decimeter (abbr.)
30. Network configuration type (pl.)
33. Display type
34. Singulated piece of IC wafer
36.
x, y, or z on Cartesian coordinates
37. Geometric entity with only length
38. The "B" in BER
39. RF IC manufacturer located in Dübendorf,
Switzerland
41. SIP x 2
43. ___ + 46 Down radiation belts*
44. Chemical symbol for tantalum
45. Satellite milieu
47. Rotary wing
aircraft
50. Chemical symbol for platinum
53. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
54. Instrument for measuring electrical potential (pl.)
59. New company formed by RFMD and TriQuint merger*
62. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
64. Automated Test Equipment
(abbr.)
65. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
66. Stock symbol for Raytheon
67. Its chemical symbol is Rn
70. Radio Amateurs of Canada
(abbr.)
71. Type of current
73. Describes when a synchronous motor loses phase lock
75. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)
76. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)
77. Sequence of items such as packets or print jobs waiting to be processed
78. 1E6 nanoseconds
79. Angular speed unit
81. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
83. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector
84. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
85. Chemical symbol for mendelevium
88. Small representative graphic
90. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
91. Indium
phosphide
93. Circuit boards (abbr.)
95. 11 Down + _________, new RF Cafe advertiser (hyph.)*
96. Web's most popular radio frequency
engineering site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)
97. "63 Down and _____," John T. Frye's intrepid teenage electronics sleuths |
1. Stock symbol for Texas Instruments
2. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)
3. Type of high voltage coil
4. Anatech Electronics Inc.,
(abbr.)
6. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
7. Mathematical relationship of voltage, resistance, and current in a circuit (2
wds.)
8. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)
9. The "E" in ELF
11. _______ + 95 Across, new RF Cafe advertiser (hyph.)*
12. Write-Once
(abbr.)
13. Type of data storage IC
14. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
15. Type of component package (abbr.)
19. Electrical overstress
(abbr.)
22. Unit for 1,000,000 watt-seconds (abbr.)
24. "Texting" (abbr.)
26. Digital encoding of the transmission mode in the vertical
sync portion of an SSTV image (abbr.)
27. Swap ____, a Ham's flea market
29. 2/3 of a triac
31. Add solder to tip of iron
32. Army-Navy
specification prefix (acr.)
33. Chemical symbol for lithium
34. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
35. Between-series connector
38. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)
39. Amateur Teleprinter Over Radio (abbr.)
40. Contraption; _______ screw, e.g., 4-40, 6-32, etc.
42. Unit of time (abbr.)
46. 43 Across + _____ radiation belts*
48. 30 kHz to 300 kHz
49. Chemical symbol for cadmium
51. Electron
beam particle (pl.)
52. Chemical symbol for helium
55. Father of radio
56. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.)
57. Used
to remove oxygen from or add hydrogen to a compound
58. RF radiating structure
60. Applies a lubricant
61. Type of logic gate
63.
"____ and 97 Across," John T. Frye's intrepid teenage electronics sleuths
68. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
69. Unix, Linux or Windows
(abbr.)
72. European equivalent to the U.L.
73. Miniature threaded RF connector
74. Device used to make contact with a point to be
measured
77. Ham's code for "Entire net stand by."
80. Unit of length (abbr.)
82. Voltage-controlled oscillator (abbr.)
84. Premier
RF/microwave engineering magazine (abbr.)
86. 24 hours
87. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
88. Network department
(abbr.)
89. Switch position
91. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
92. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)
94. Chemical symbol for
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See solution below
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