3/19/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1. Miniature threaded RF connector

4. Averages

9. Directions for verifying proper function, abbr.

12. Incandescent bulb

13. An angle of less than 90 degrees

14. Used logic gates

16. A receiver linearity spec, abbr.

17. One port of an amplifier

18. Chemical symbol for calcium

19. 10^1 numerical prefix

20. Maximally flat group delay filter function

23. Voltage values

25. Color quality

27. Method for connecting redundant power supplies

28. Precision landing system, abbr.

29. Quantity of heat equal to 100,000 BTU

31. Ratio of the maximum carrier frequency deviation to the modulating frequency at a given instant in an FM transmitter

32. Divides the signal into pieces

34. Charged particle

36. Type of graph for plotting antenna patterns

37. Gun safety and education organization, abbr.

38. Aircraft tracking systems

43. European space probe which visited Halley's comet

48. Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit

49. Opposite of O.D.

51. 10^1 numerical prefix

52. Its chemical symbol is Fe

53. Switch configuration, abbr.

54. Cell phone manufacturer

56. The "L" in ADSL

57. Official Space Shuttle designation

58. Quickly changing portions of waveforms

59. Short Message Service

DOWN

1. Lockout position

2. Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service

3. Automatic Packet Position Reporting System

4. Snail and e- are examples of this

5. Engineering Change Notice, abbr.

6. Chemical symbol for gold

7. Negative Temperature Coefficient

8. Hermetic barrier

9. Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector

10. Technical drawing structure

11. Positive Emitter-Coupled Logic

12. Lower Sideband

15. 10^1 numerical prefix, pl.

21. High voltage resistor manufacturer in Montreal, Quebec, abbr.

22. Containing more than two ports

24. End Of Transmission

25. Opposite of a LO

26. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

27. Having resistance

30. A circuit that takes two or more input signals, and produces an output that includes the sum and difference of those signal frequencies

33. Special diode that can be switched

34. One port of an amplifier

35. 1e-6 mA

36. Radar display, abbr.

38. Common average used for sinewaves, abbr.

39. Volts divided by resistance

40. This, multiplied by inductance yields voltage across the inductor

41. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services

42. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse

43. High frequency semiconductor, abbr.

44. Lubricants

45. Adjust a capacitor or resistor

46. Units of weight

47. Exponent that returns the original number

50. Official U.S. military organization, abbr.

51. Singulated piece of IC wafer

55. Mass unit, abbr.


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