March 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  3-28-2010

ACROSS

1. Wire or cable connecting a radio to an antenna

4. Determination of cause and effect

8. Chemical symbol for strontium

11. _-____, VCO manufacturer in San Diego, CA

13. Small DIP package (abbr.)

15. Name for a negatively charged ion

18. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)

19. Cable manufacturer with HQ in Richmond, IN

20. Type of logic gate

21. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.

23. Chemical symbol for silver

25. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

27. Encased in a protective covering

28. Digital waveform with a 50% duty cycle

31. Parameter that is a figure of merit for receiver performance in presence of multiple signals (abbr.)

34. 10^1 numerical prefix

36. Minutes of Use (abbr.)

38. Station using an existing call sign and illegally operating on the air

41. Negation prefix

43. Chemical symbol for radon

44. Waveform described by a Dirac delta function

45. Type of high frequency circuit substrate (abbr.)

46. Rubber or plastic donut-shaped insert for protecting pass-through wires

47. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

48. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

49. RF component manufacturer in Arcadia, CA

50. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

51. Modulation type (abbr.)

56. Increase voltage linearly

58. Putting a new program on a computer

61. ___ Microwave, maker of ferrite isolators & circulators, in San Jose, CA

62. Add two or more inputs

64. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

65. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide

66. Opposite of MSB

68. Filter type commonly used in phase-locked-loops

71. Radio Amateurs of Canada

72. C# statement that ensures Dispose is called even if an exception occurs

73. Transformer interwinding connections

74. Type of transistor (abbr., pl.)

76. Chemical symbol for cesium

78. Wearing away of a surface

79. One who attaches components to a PCB

DOWN

1. Chemical symbol for francium

2. Go beyond published limits

3. Light

5. ____ Technologies, RF module maker in Merlin, OR

6. Causes a circuit path with very low or 0 ohms of impedance

7. Chemical symbol for tin

8. Relating to the sun

9. Feature in some waveguides used to increase operational bandwidth

10. Symbols and lines used to construct a representative drawing of a system at a high level, pl.

12. Method of connecting redundant power supplies (pl.)

13. Chemical symbol for selenium

14. European equivalent to the U.L.

16. Charged particle

17. Circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device (2 wds.)

21. ELI the ICE ___

22. ___ Electronics, RF component manufacturer in Buffalo Grove, IL

24. A feedback scheme to level out the receiver audio volume (abbr.)

26. Airflow rate (abbr.)

29. Formerly HP Test & Measurement

30. Secondary cell using a liquid as an electrolyte (2 wds.)

32. 10^23 of anything (pl.)

33. Device to assist in the performance of a chore (pl.)

35. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

36. Maximum Usable Frequency

37. Country of RF Cafe's residency

39. Stock symbol for Raytheon

40. Logic family

41. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)

42. Nordic Mobile Telephone

43. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)

52. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)

53. Type of logic gate

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

55. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)

57. ______ Electronics - passive RF component vendor in Clifton, NJ

59. RF design tool vendor in Espoo, Finland (now part of AWR)

60. Lights

61. The plane figure enclosed by two radii of a circle and the arc between them

63. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)

65. The UK's largest defense electronics contractor (abbr.)

67. Low- to mid- frequency connectors

69. PC follower

70. Chemical symbol for arsenic

71. Stock symbol for RF Micro Devices

75. Stock symbol for Boeing

77. Chemical symbol for bromine


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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle  3-28-2010