February 28, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

 

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle 2-28-2010

ACROSS

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

6. 10^1 numerical prefix

9. BER, 8 bits at a time

11. Chemical symbol for calcium

12. Electromagnetic compatibility (abbr.)

13. Internet protocol (abbr.)

16. 1e-6 mA

18. German physicist after which the constant of proportionality between the energy of a photon and its frequency is named

19. Data transmission pathway

22. Chemical symbol for antimony

23. Ratio of circumference to diameter

24. Eight bits

25. _______ Electronics, RF filter & components manufacturer in Garfield, NJ

28. 2-way conversation, Ham term

30. Switch position

31. Surface mount technology (abbr.)

32. RF shielding manufacturer headquartered in Easton, PA

33. Grouping of antennas

35. Intel x86 command for " jump if above"

36. Signal amplitude degradation due to inefficiency

37. Global System for Mobile Communications (abbr.)

38. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)

41. Upper frequency (abbr.)

42. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)

45. No insulation

48. One port of an amplifier

49. SIgnal to Noise And Distortion (abbr.)

50. Mars has two of these

51. Software engineering tool (abbr.)

52. Chemical symbol for aluminum

53. Airport surveillance radar (abbr.)

55. Analog _______, premier IC company in Norwood, MA

58. Erbium doped fiber amplifier (abbr.)

60. Unit of length (abbr.)

61. European equivalent to the U.L.

63. Adjust a pot

64. A 3rd-order polynomial (pl.)

65. Chemical symbol for cadmium

68. Chemical symbol for tantalum

69. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

72. Infrared (abbr.)

74. Amplifier linearity specification (abbr.)

75. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

76. Applied Wave ________, RF software company in El Segundo, CA

DOWN

1. One state of matter

2. Type of current flow (abbr.)

3. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)

4. Chemical symbol for neon

5. Electromagnetic (abbr.)

7. RF design tool vendor in Espoo, Finland

8. Heatsink feature (pl.)

10. A number that can be expressed as a/b, where a, b are integers

14. ___ Material World, circuit board maker in Palatine, IL

15. LCD display vendor

17. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)

19. Chemical symbol for bismuth

20. Chemical symbol for selenium

21. ELI the ICE ___

23. Unit of time (abbr.)

26. The "N" in SNR

27. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)

28. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)

29. Curve produced when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base

31. BC Power _______, power supply & controller company in Setauket, NY

32. Opposite of I.D.

34. Chemical symbol for silver

35. Large transmitting tube such klystron, magnetron

39. Archaic Japanese unit of length equal to 30.3 mm

40. Structure of columns and rows

41. Heater element in a vacuum tube

43. Chemical symbol for nickel

44. Cable television (abbr.)

46. RF & DC power supply manufacturer located in Gloucester, MA

47. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

51. Chemical symbol for chromium

52. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word used by Bill the Cat)

54. Surface mount (abbr.)

56. Premier zero-phase-hit oscillator vendor in Rockleigh, NJ

57. Miniature RF connector

58. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

59. Unit of length (abbr.)

61. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane

62. Online auction site

66. Singulated piece of IC wafer

67. Ham's code for "Does my frequency vary?"

70. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

71. Test equipment (abbr.)

73. Chemical symbol for radium


See solution below

RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle 2-28-2010