10/8/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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RF Cafe: Engineering-theme crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1. Connector strain relief

4. Area outside the passband

7. Microhenry, abbr.

8. Circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device, 2 wds.

15. Chemical symbol for nobelium

17. Last stage in transmitters, abbr., pl.

18. Coordinated Universal Time, abbr.

20. Chemical symbol for radium

22. Chemical symbol for gold

23. Chemical symbol for lithium

25. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

26. Switch position

27. Gun safety and education organization, abbr.

28. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word for Bill the Cat)

29. Greek letter

30. Chemical symbol for scandium

32. Chemical symbol for silver

33. Test equipment, abbr.

35. Chemical symbol for zirconium

36. Printed Wiring Board, abbr.

38. Time Division Multiplexing

40. Ham's term for self-assembled projects

41. Having no resistive component

42. Creating a code version of a semiconductor device

46. Alcohol, epoxy and gasoline, for example

51. Effective Radiated Power

53. Hub of the solar system

54. 30 kHz to 300 kHz

56. Galilean moon

57. Chemical symbol for cesium

59. Foot, abbr.

60. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY

61. Digital encoding of the transmission mode in the vertical sync portion of an SSTV image, abbr.

62. Display type

63. Original Equipment Manufacturer

64. Test point, abbr.

66. One component of a complex number, abbr.

67. Type of logic gate

69. Chemical symbol for tantalum

70. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide

72. Automatic network analyzer, abbr.

74. Chemical symbol for europium

75. Super glue

76. Network department, abbr.

79. The "E" in ATE

80. RF region defined at less than wavelength/(2*pi)

DOWN

1. Wireless product specification for the 2.4 GHz band

2. Chemical symbol for cobalt

3. C++, Java, BASIC, Fortran, etc.

4. Use software for circuit or system design

5. Home state of Los Alamos lab

6. Units of electrical charge

9. One type of electron spin

10. Radio Amateurs of Canada

11. Type of flip-flop

12. Chemical symbol for ruthenium

13. Stock symbol for Raytheon

14. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region

16. Unintentionally impress a signal on a transmission line

19. Inventor of the Kodak camera

21. Automatic Frequency Control

22. Amateur Radio Association

24. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

25. Unit of frequency

31. Unit of signal reflection, abbr.

34. RF systems company in Rochester, NY, abbr. (now owned by GE)

36. Chemical symbol for lead

37. Chemical symbol for beryllium

38. Part of a FOR loop

39. 1E6 nanoseconds

42. Its chemical symbol is Mn

43. Front edge of a wing, abbr.

44. International Reply Coupon

45. Chemical symbol for neptunium

46. Particle accelerator developed by the American physicists Lawrence and Livingston

47. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

48. Maximum Usable Frequency

49. One port of an amplifier

50. Used software for circuit or system design

52. A trigonometry function that is the reciprocal of the sine

55. Network file transfer protocol, abbr.

56. Type of digital filter, abbr.

58. Special diode that can be switched, abbr.

59. Field Effect Transistor

65. Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr.

68. RĂ¡dio Nacional de Angola, abbr.

70. Next to

71. Switch position

72. Chemical symbol for aluminum

73. PC follower

77. Chemical symbol for lutetium

78. Chemical symbol for iron


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