Electrical Engineering Crossword Puzzle

February 19, 2012

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 2/19/2012 - RF Cafe

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1. Optical storage medium (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)

5. German physicist who gave his name to the uncertainty principle

10. European equivalent to the U.L.

12. Type of distribution, squared

13. Chemical symbol for selenium

14. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)

15. Mate to an RX

16. Multiprotocol Label Switching (abbr.)

18. Sharp bend in I-V curve

19. Miniature threaded RF connector

20. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector

22. Web's most popular RF site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)

24. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)

25. Increase voltage linearly

26. Stock symbol for Yahoo

27. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

28. 1e-6 mA

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

31. Yard (abbr.)

32. Work out the solution to an equation

33. Part of this website's title

35. Exalted-Carrier Single Sideband (abbr.)

36. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)

37. Semiconductor lamp

38. Automatic Send-Receive (abbr.)

39. Used logic gates

41. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

42. Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone

43. Big Blue

45. Low Noise Amplifier (abbr.)

47. Unit of admittance

49. Things in a bill of material

50. Chemical symbol for copper

51. Remove insulation from a wire

53. Chemical symbol for terbium

54. Output intercept point (abbr.)

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

57. Greek letter used for frequency

58. Impenetrable physical barrier

59. Last keyword in a BASIC subroutine (pl.)

61. International Telecommunications Union

63. Five-bit digital code used in teleprinter application

65. High-speed logic family

66. U.S. military organization (abbr.)

68. ECM response

69. Oscillator type that is referenced to an external source (abbr., pl.)

70. Unit of length (abbr.)

71. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

72. Max or min voltage of a waveform (abbr.)

73. Key feature in a high level overvoltage protection device

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

75. Unit of capacitance (pl.)

76. Radio navigation system

1. Digital data error check

2. Singulated piece of IC wafer

3. Workplace safety group (abbr.)

4. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

5. Amateur radio enthusiast

6. Region of the ionosphere found approximately 55 to 90 miles above Earth; it fades away a few hours after sunset (hyph.)

7. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

8. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

9. Armored cable type

10. Sets the flip-flop output to "0"

11. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

12. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)

16. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

17. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr.)

18. Energy possessed by a body in motion

19. The scalar component of velocity

20. He stated the law that the pressure of a given mass of gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature

21. Current summing point

22. _____&Schwarz

23. Microwave filters have these

25. Did a Ctrl+Alt+Del

27. Start frequency (abbr.)

30. 1E6 nanoseconds

34. The portion of a cone which remains when its upper part has been cut off by a plane parallel to its base

38. The "A" in AWG

40. Type of high-tech data gathering system (abbr.)

41. Software object reference name

42. Added an impurity to a semiconductor

44. Memory type of yore

46. National Television System Committee (abbr.)

47. Formed into a specific shape

48. Opposite of a LO

52. Chemical symbol for plutonium

56. Programmable logic device (abbr.)

60. Numerical prefix meaning 10 (var.)

62. ___/IP scheme for networked connectivity

64. Unit of time (abbr.)

65. Electromotive force (abbr.)

67. Type of logic gate (pl.)

68. Enhanced Graphics Adapter

69. Chemical symbol for praseodymium

70. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

71. Stock symbol for Boeing

72. Chemical symbol for platinum


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Engineering Crossword Solution for 2/19/2012- RF Cafe