5/30/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1. The first "S" in SSI IC nomenclature

6. Consequence of under sampling

11. Aircraft navigation system, abbr.

12. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere

13. Intermodulation distortion, abbr.

15. Chemical symbol for radon

19. 1e-6 mA

20. Logs onto a hard drive

22. Graphs

24. Switch position

25. Electrical overstress, abbr.

26. One port of an amplifier

27. European equivalent to the U.L.

28. Sends a file over a network, abbr.

29. Adjusts a pot

31. It can follow an MS

34. Method of mathematically evaluating circuits

35. Logic gates

37. Application Specific Integrated Circuit

41. Snail and E are examples of this

45. Opposite of I.D.

47. Peripheral Component Interface

48. Computer communication scheme, abbr.

49. Chemical symbol for tantalum

50. Structures of columns and rows

51. Aircraft tracking system, pl.

52. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

53. Max or min voltage of a waveform, abbr.

54. Engineering Change Notice

56. Automatic Level Control

57. Maximum Usable Frequency

59. O-scope time base action

60. International phonetic alphabet letter "R"

DOWN

2. 1e3 uV

3. Online service search engine

4. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

5. Like carbon batteries

7. Chemical symbol for lithium

8. Type of diode

9. Analog-to-Digital, abbr.

10. Strong cable covering

14. Like a laser, but at lower frequencies

16. Negation prefix

17. Class of spread spectrum, abbr.

18. Voltage-Controlled Oscillator, pl.

19. Negative temperature coefficient, abbr.

21. Transmit Optical Power

23. Color quality

30. Half of a DIP

31. Permeability-Tuned Oscillator

32. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses, abbr.

33. Powers pneumatic devices

36. Electronic assembly transport containers

38. Join two ends of a conductor

39. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

40. Complex Instruction Set Computer

41. Microwaves & RF magazine, abbr.

42. A common battery cell size

43. Element #49

44. Part of a PCB or IC fabrication process, pl.

46. 10^1 numerical prefix, pl.

49. Total Radiated Power

54. Modern battlefield technique, abbr.

55. Chemical symbol for neon

57. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

58. Chemical symbol for iron


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