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January 1961 Popular Electronics

January 1961 Popular Electronics

January 1961 Popular Electronics Cover - RF Cafe WebsiteTable of Contents

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

This Roundword Puzzle is not as challenging as a crossword puzzle, but it is a useful exercise to check how rounded out your knowledge of basic electronics principles. Author Leonard Kindler (I call him "Leo") provided this for Popular Electronics magazine in 1961. As Leo states, if you are fairly capable are electronics theory (nothing on a PhD level), then it will not prove too difficult. Below the Roundword Puzzle is a huge list of other puzzles in various formats that I have posted here on RF Cafe (many I created myself). BTW, when I first saw the title in the table of contents, I thought it said "roundworm." Bonne chance, viel glück, go n-éirí an t-ádh leat, buona fortuna, buena suerte, udachi, and sealbh math dhuit!

Vacuum Tube Quiz

By Leonard I. Kindler

Here's a puzzle to warm the heart of any electronics experimenter. If you're up on your theory, this one should be a cinch! If you're not, there may be some rough going in spots. Just start in the upper left-hand corner and work clockwise until you reach the center. The last letter of each word is used as the first letter of the next word, and the first word begins with a "T."

Roundword Puzzle, January 1961 Popular Electronics - RF Cafe Website

   1  Detects temperature changes.

   2  _______ impedance is caused by load
      on other side of transformer.

   3  Capacitor construction type.

   4  Interconnecting wire.

   5  _______ waves progressively decrease
      in amplitude.

   6  Unit for expressing power ratio.

   7  Wave pattern seen on oscilloscope.

   8  Wire joint.

   9  Detects static charges.

10  Part of a tube.

11  Switch design type.

12  Capacitor discharge curve type.

13  Piece of transformer core.

14  _______ voltage is fed in 180° out
     of phase with r.f. signal.

15  Band between adjacent FM channels.

16  Speaker or mike type.

17  Oscillator using parallel - tuned tank.

18  Superregenerative detector type:
      hyphenated word.

 

See answers below.

Quizzes from vintage electronics magazines such as Popular Electronics, Electronics-World, QST, Radio-Electronics, and Radio News were published over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert P. Balin created most of the quizzes for Popular Electronics. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

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