June 13, 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 6/13/2010


ACROSS

1. Opposite of an insulator (pl.)

9. Unit of frequency

11. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)

12. Shorthand for oxygen

13. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)

14. Return-to-Zero (abbr.)

16. Chemical symbol for antimony

19. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)

21. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor

23. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)

25. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

27. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

29. Applied ____ Research (AWR), RF simulator company in El Segundo, CA

31. European equivalent to the U.L.

32. Chemical symbol for platinum

33. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.)

35. Internet protocol (abbr.)

36. Type of current

37. Nordic Mobile Telephone

38. BER, 8 bits at a time

40. The "H" in UHF

42. Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator (abbr.)

44. Error checking scheme (abbr.)

45. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide

46. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

47. Chemical symbol for polonium

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

50. Part of a FOR loop

51. Modulation type (abbr.)

52. Stock symbol for RF Micro Devices

54. Chemical symbol for scandium

55. Chemical symbol for aluminum

56. Chemical symbol for selenium

57. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)

59. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)

62. Switch position

63. Chemical symbol for silver

64. Test equipment manufacturer, now Agilent (abbr.)

66. Electromagnetic (abbr.)

68. Central Processing Unit

71. Direction of carbon fiber strands

72. Filter vendor in Norwalk, CT
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2. Opposite of I.D.

3. Chemical symbol for niobium

4. The "D" in CD

5. Chemical symbol for cobalt

6. Mate to an RX

7. Chemical symbol for radon

8. Miniature threaded RF connector

9. Time taken for information to pass through a circuit element (2 wds.)

10. Abbreviation for Hertz

15. 300 Hz to 3 kHz

17. Bulk Acoustic Wave

18. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

20. The "T" in ATE

22. Set of poles

24. Highland __________, card-based test equipment manufacturer in San Francisco, CA

26. Unit of length (abbr.)

28. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

30. Abbreviation for peak voltage

31. CDMA Development Group (abbr.)

33. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

34. Measure of source / load mismatch (abbr.)

37. Chemical symbol for nobelium

39. High-speed logic family

40. Base 16 number system (abbr.)

41. Galilean moon

43. Volt-ohmmeter (abbr.)

44. Z-____, frequency source company in San Diego, CA

45. Low- to mid- frequency connectors

47. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

49. Network department (abbr.)

50. Chemical symbol for tantalum

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

53. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

58. Foot/12

60. Chemical symbol for cesium

61. Unit of resistance

63. A common battery cell size

65. Ratio of circumference to diameter

66. Chemical symbol for erbium

67. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

69. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

70. Unit of time (abbr.)


See solution below

RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle solution