June 20, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

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RF Caafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, 6-20-2010

ACROSS

1 Nuclear explosion byproduct harmful to electronic (abbr., pl.)

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

9. Multiprotocol Label Switching (abbr.)

12. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)

14. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

15. Type of flip-flop

16. Chemical symbol for iron

18. Advanced Test _________ Rentals, a company that leases lab equipment, in San Diego, CA

23. Imaginary part of the opposition to current flow

28. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)

29. Software drafting tool (abbr.)

32. The nearest spiral galaxy

37. RF component distributor

40. Capacitor vendor in Greenville, SC

42. Electrical overstress (abbr.)

45. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

47. RF switch & attenuator manufacturer located in Indianapolis, IN

49. Exponent that returns the original number

51. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)

52. Powers pneumatic devices

53. Adjust a pot

54. Describes the action of cleaving a crystal plane

55. Change connector type

59. The "E" in EHF

62. Signal _________, a common piece of test equipment

68. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)

70. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net."

73. Man-made material

76. Shaping an object by forcing material through a die

79. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

80. Chemical symbol for lead

82. Electromagnetic (abbr.)

83. Chemical symbol for tin

84. National Television System Committee (abbr.)

85. _______ Engineering, RF systems engineering firm in Middletown, OH, that provides RF subsystem design services

86. Adds two or more inputs


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2. Minutes of Use (abbr.)

3. _____ conductor

5. Mate to a bolt

6. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)

7. Chemical symbol for erbium

8. Bluetooth modules & ICs vendor headquartered in Cambridge, UK

9. The "M" in CMOS

10. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)

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

13. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin

16. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

17. Chemical symbol for helium

19. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)

20. Band between RF and BB

21. Negation prefix

22. Unit of admittance

24. Last statement in a BASIC program

25. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

26. European equivalent to the U.L.

27. State _______ - A type of drawing used in computer science and related fields to describe the behavior of systems (pl.)

30. WWW browser

31. Morse Code for "from"

32. Army-Navy specification prefix

33. Sunshine ______, engineering consultant in Ramona, CA

34. The "E" in FET

35. Type of current flow (abbr.)

36. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

38. A star that suddenly becomes much brighter and then gradually returns to its original brightness over a period of weeks to years

39. ____ Equipment Connection,

40. ____ Microwave, RF component company in FuJian, China

41. 1E6 bits per second

43. Switch position

44. Chemical symbol for strontium

45. 10^1 numerical prefix

46. Method of connecting redundant power supplies

47. JavaScript (abbr.)

48. Weight (abbr.)

49. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

50. Greek letter used for frequency

56. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

57. Chemical symbol for mercury

58. Chemical symbol for chromium

60. Chemical symbol for xenon

61. RF IC manufacturer headquartered in South Korea (abbr.)

63. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)

64. Type of memory

65. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.)

66. Balun with both ports unbalanced (pl.)

67. Next to

68. Unit of length (abbr.)

69. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.)

70. Ham's code for "Shall I send more slowly?"

71. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

72. Chemical symbol for polonium

73. Type of component package (abbr.)

74. Logical negation operator

75. Central Processing Unit

76. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)

77. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)

78. 1e-6 mA

81. Bandwidth (abbr.)

82. 1.602E-19 Joules


See solution below

RF Cafe - Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution, 6-20-2010