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At least 10 clues with an asterisk (*) in this technology-themed
crossword puzzle are pulled from this past week's (1/8 - 1/14) "Tech Industry
Headlines" column on the RF Cafe homepage. For the sake of all the avid cruciverbalists amongst us,
each week I create a new technology-themed crossword puzzle using only words from my
custom-created related
to engineering, science, mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, etc. Enjoy!
cruciverbalist:
[noun] cruci- ("cross") + verbal ("words") + -ist ("agent, person") -- A person
who constructs crosswords.
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of RF
Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words
1. World's 1st fully electronic digital computer (abbr.)
5. FCC Opens Era of Wireless Charging '__-________' *
11. Wire
15. Base of the
binary number system
16. Chemical symbol for neptunium
17. Broadband Signal Intrusion
(abbr.)
18. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)
20. BASIC program command
22.
Chemical symbol for silicon
24. Unit of length (abbr.)
25. Common mode ripple rejection
(abbr.)
27. Army-Navy specification prefix
28. Common average used for sinewaves
(abbr.)
30. Semiconductor lamp
31. Submarine Cable Record 144 ____ from Hong Kong
to L.A. in 1 Second *
34. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
35. One state of matter
36. Pint (abbr.)
37. Have a positive phase wrt a reference
39. Chemical symbol
for silicon
40. Not hot
41. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
42. One component
of a complex number (abbr.)
43. Write-Once (abbr.)
45. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.
46. One type of electron spin
48. Type of current flow (abbr.)
49. Type of current
50. Chemical symbol for aluminum
51. 30 kHz to 300 kHz
52. Chemical symbol for
erbium
53. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (abbr.)
55. Infrared (abbr.)
57. Constellation : The lyre
59. Test equipment (abbr.)
60. Capacitor manufacturer
62. Miniature threaded RF connector
63. Frequency
65. Amateur radio operating mode
for sharing real-time video (abbr.)
67. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)
69. A measure
of receiver quality (abbr.)
70. Complex Instruction Set Computer
71. Analog-to-Digital
(abbr.)
72. One type of electron spin
74. Stock symbol for Dell Computer
76.
Chemical symbol for berkelium
77. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr.)
78. Mate to a TX
80. Crystal filter type (abbr.)
82. _____ Offers iPhone Users
Apology, $29 Battery Replacement Deal *
83. NCVEC Releases New __________ License
Question Pool *
84. _____ Fixing Security Vulnerability in Its Chips * |
1. 600 MHz Incentive Auction ____________ Ends with a
Whimper *
2. Network department (abbr.)
3. Conductor size unit (abbr.)
4. Cause
the temperature to drop
5. Positive electrode
6. Cellphone band just below PCS
7. Chemical symbol for tin
8. Test point (abbr.)
9. Nordic Mobile Telephone
10. A popular spreadsheet
11. Has the White House Sent a Signal on ____? *
12.
Airport Surveillance Radar (abbr.)
13. Chemical symbol for bismuth
14. German aircraft
designer who developed the first rocket-powered airplane (2 wds.)
19. Centimeter (abbr.)
21. Ten ________ Predictions for 2018 *
23. Network department (abbr.)
24. Start
frequency (abbr.)
26. Add information to a CW signal
27. A common battery cell
size
29. U.S. Spy Satellite Believed Lost After ______ Mission Fails *
32. Filter
type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
33. Ratio of circumference
to diameter
35. Design News Announces 2018 ______ Mousetrap Awards Finalists *
38. Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
40. U.S. Cellular to Leverage Machine Learning
to Plan Small ____ Build-Outs *
42. Chemical symbol for radium
44. Amateur radio
abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
45. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
47. Unit
of capacitance (abbr.)
54. Crystal face
55. Galilean moon
56. Chemical symbol
for radon
58. Its chemical symbol is Rn
61. 300 Hz to 3 kHz in audio (abbr.)
62. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle,
and the hypotenuse
63. Time delay (abbr.)
64. Chemical symbol for europium
66.
Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)
68. Chemical symbol for
lead
70. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)
71. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage
(abbr.)
73. FCC's Ajit ___ Cancels CES Appearance Due to Death Threats *
75. Computer
communication scheme (abbr.)
77. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)
78. Chemical
symbol for radon
79. Greek letter
81. Weight (abbr.) |
See solution below
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