June 20, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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