Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

September 12, 2010

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle, 9-12-2010

ACROSS

1. Determine cause and effect

4. More than one XCVR

8. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

12. Chemical symbol for californium

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

15. Related to FM by a differential

16. One port of an amplifier

17. Its chemical symbol is F

20. Computer Assisted Design and Development

22. Test point (abbr.)

24. A common battery cell size

26. Base of the binary number system

27. Type of current

29. __ Dude, premier design consultant in Rochester, NY

30. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

32. Generating a form of energy arising from the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules

34. Regarding light

35. ________ Test Equipment Rentals, TE supplier in San Diego, CA

37. ELI the ICE ___

39. Shorthand for oxygen

40. 3-phase transformer configuration

42. ______ Microwave - passive RF component vendor in Clifton, NJ

44. Band between RF and BB

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

48. Unit of length (abbr.)

49. Abbreviation for minimum voltage

51. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

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

55. ____ Equipment Connection, TE rental service in Lake Mary, FL

56. Sample-and-____

58. Voltage-current phase mnemonic

60. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

62. Chemical symbol for lead

64. Chemical symbol for holmium

65. High voltage resistor manufacturer in Montreal, Quebec

66. Mate to a TX

67. Indium Gallium Arsenide semiconductor

69. Greek letter

71. 10^1 numerical prefix

74. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

76. One orientation of polarization

78. Reflected radar or sonar signal (pl.)

79. Filter manufacturer located in Gaithersburg, MD

81. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

82. Chemical symbol for cesium

84. Very small aperture terminal

87. Logical negation operator

89. Chemical symbol for platinum

90. One component of a complex number (abbr.)

91. Computer communication scheme (abbr., pl.)

92. Types of amplifier, slang (pl.)

93. Chemical symbol for chromium

95. Chemical symbol for lithium

96. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

97. Chemical symbol for zirconium

98. Radio navigation system

99. Type of load used in place of an antenna during transmitter testing

100. _______ Factor, antenna manufacturer in Merlin, OR; also, an EM radiating structure

DOWN

1. An angle that has less than 90 degrees

2. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)

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

5. Software engineering tool (abbr.)

6. 300 Hz to 3 kHz

7. Marconi's transmitter configuration (2 wds.)

8. Switch configuration (abbr.)

9. Modulation type (abbr.)

10. Ratio of circumference to diameter

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

13. Having a DC voltage reference

18. Direction of carbon fiber strands

19. 1e-6 mA

21. Product offering type of Applied Wave Research (AWR), Applied Computer Sciences (ACS), Guided Wave Technology, Sunshine Design, etc.

23. Chemical symbol for palladium

25. Ground fault interrupter (abbr.)

28. ____tail, a type of strong wood joint

29. Radio teletype (abbr.)

31. Chemical symbol for tin

32. Base 16 number system (abbr.)

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

35. Name for a negatively charged ion

36. Waveguide manufacturer in Edinburg, VA

38. Referring to the atomic core structure

40. Weight (abbr.)

41. 1.602E-19 Joules

43. Chemical symbol for antimony

45. Chemical symbol for francium

47. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)

48. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)

50. Unit of admittance

52. Computer display unit

54. ________ Design, software & engineering consulting in Ramona, CA

57. Collection of electronic records (abbr.)

59. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

61. Chemical symbol for mercury

63. Filter type that blocks frequencies below and above a specified band (abbr.)

64. Opposite of a LO

68. Altered the relations between the parts of a structure or shape by applying an external force

70. Miniature RF connectors

71. Keyboard key

72. Substrate for mounting component (abbr., pl.)

73. Refuse to absorb energy

75. European equivalent to the U.L.

76. ______ Telecom, waveguide components manufacturer in Melbourne, Australia; also, a mathematical quantity that has both direction and magnitude

77. Chemical symbol for terbium

80. Applied Computational Sciences, RF simulator company in Escondido, CA (abbr.)

83. Colorado resort town

84. Aircraft navigation system (abbr.)

85. Chemical symbol for argon

86. Trans European Trunked RAdio

88. Einstein's paradoxical traveler

89. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

92. Person responsible for program spending (abbr.)

94. Chemical symbol for radium

95. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

96. Unit of length (abbr.)

97. Chemical symbol for zinc


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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle Solution, 9-12-2010