6/13/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1. RF connector & cable manufacturer in Suwon, Korea (and an RF Cafe advertiser)

9. 2-element, 1/2 wavelength antenna fed at the center

11. Ham's code for "Your net frequency is High."

13. Area on a shaft for accommodating a setscrew

14. Type of logic gate

16. Fast Fourier Transform

18. Analog-to-Digital

19. Unit of weight

21. Chemical symbol for silver

23. Cell phone manufacturer

26. Chemical symbol for radon

27. Radio Amateurs of Canada

29. Galilean moon

30. Pure carrier, abbr.

31. Basis for decibels, abbr.

32. Five-bit digital code used in teleprinter application

34. One bit at a time

36. Unix, Linux or Windows

37. Between-series connectors

40. Metal parts engineer, abbr.

41. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

42. Chemical symbol for lithium

43. Half of DSB

45. Stock symbol for Harris Communications

46. Adds two or more inputs

48. International Telecommunications Union

49. 'Shooting star'

51. PCB layout & fab company in Boynton Beach, FL

DOWN

2. Opposite of O.D.

3. Image file format name extension

4. RF design tool vendor in Espoo, Finland

5. Terminations

6. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

7. Chemical symbol for neon

8. Ham's code for "Net is Free (not controlled)."

10. Charged particle

12. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics, abbr.

14. Negation prefix

15. Its chemical symbol is C

17. Vacuum tube with three control grids

19. Tall structures for antennas

20. They have units of degrees or radians

22. Type of high frequency semiconductor, abbr.

24. Greek letter

25. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers

26. Move from cell to cell

28. Chemical symbol for copper

31. Chemical symbol for lithium

33. Type of data conversion device, abbr., pl.

35. Receiver power level circuitry, abbr.

38. The sun's most distant <former>planet

39. Software device for tracking elapsed time

41. International Reply Coupon

44. Unit of heat

46. Adjust a pot

47. System On Chip

49. 1/000 of an amp

50. Chemical symbol for radium


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