Engineering Crossword Puzzle

March 4, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for March 4, 2012 - RF Cafe

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1. Effect (named after its discoverer) that is the variation in the width of the base in a BJT due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector

5. Constellation : The twins

10. Last stage in transmitter (abbr., pl.)

11. Vector _______, antenna designer & manufacturer in Melbourne, Australia

14. Chemical symbol for radium

15. Stack command

16. Chemical symbol for manganese

17. Chemical symbol for calcium

18. Data transmission pathway

19. Chemical symbol for neptunium

21. Move in a raster pattern

23. Snail and E are examples of this

25. Adjustment dial

27. Ham's code for "Shall I stop sending?"

28. Device attached to an antenna mast which rotates it so that the antenna can point in different directions

30. Unit of typing speed (abbr.)

32. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

34. Add solder to tip of iron

35. Chemical symbol for iron

36. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.)

38. Boob tube (abbr.)

40. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)

42. Computer "brain" (abbr.)

44. Unit of electrical charge

45. Chemical symbol for francium

47. Chemical symbol for thulium

48. Type of component package (abbr.)

49. Join together

51. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)

53. Below ELF

55. Type of propagation above 30 MHz by means of refraction by highly ionized regions around the Earth's poles

57. Stock symbol for Boeing

58. Chemical symbol for neodymium

59. Chemical symbol for silicon

60. Capacitor type

61. Input intercept point (abbr.)

63. Tie a bundle of wires together

65. Test equipment (abbr.)

66. One port of an amplifier

68. Chemical symbol for silicon

69. Circuit element connecting PCB layers

71. Return-to-Zero (abbr.)

73. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)

75. Balanced-to-unbalanced device

77. One port of an amplifier

79. An ellipse has two of them

81. Thing in a bill of material

83. Possess luminosity

85. Greek letter (micro)

86. Elemental compound used for microwave frequency reference oscillators (abbr.)

87. Chemical symbol for europium

88. Chemical symbol for argon

90. Radio teletype (abbr.)

92. Network department (abbr.)

93. Large radio telescope in Puerto Rico

95. Voltage-controlled oscillator (abbr.)

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

97. _____ conductor

1. Type of reconfigurable memory (abbr.)

2. A common battery cell size

3. Type of flip-flop

4. Elemental compound used for microwave frequency reference oscillators (abbr., pl.)

5. First American to orbit the earth - John ...

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

7. Wire diameter unit (abbr.)

8. Charged particles

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

12. 1.602E-19 Joules

13. Capacitor dielectric type

15. Numbers by which a set is divisible

17. Mr. Gauss' first name

18. He, along with Mr. Savart, developed a law that describes a magnetic field generated by an electric current

20. Physical quantity defined as being the work done per unit time

22. "Calling any amateur radio station"

24. Chemical symbol for argon

25. Chemical symbol for krypton

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

29. Switch position

31. 300 kHz to 3 MHz

33. Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (abbr.)

35. A number series that has each number equal to the sum of the two previous numbers

37. A BPF specification (abbr.)

39. Volt-ohmmeter (abbr.)

40. Science of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)

41. Circuit for firing a radar magnetron (abbr., pl.)

43. Push to Talk (abbr.)

46. Measure of a component's or system's likelihood of not failing

50. Chemical symbol for californium

51. Upper frequency (abbr.)

52. Inductor

54. Crystal face

55. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices

56. Mr. de Forest's first name

57. The "B" in BER

58. Its chemical symbol is N

62. Ratio of circumference to diameter

64. Provider of services for telecommunications systems in Switzerland

67. Chemical symbol for nickel

69. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)

70. Under self-control (prefix)

72. International phonetic alphabet letter "Z"

74. Part of this website's title

75. Chemical symbol for bismuth

76. Chemical symbol for neon

78. Part of a FOR loop

80. Unit used in the measurement of radioactivity was named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry

82. Converts electrical energy into mechanical energy

84. World Amateur Radio Conference

86. Elemental compound used for microwave frequency reference oscillators (abbr., pl.)

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

91. Chemical symbol for terbium

92. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

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

94. Chemical symbol for californium

95. Abbreviation for peak voltage


See solution below

Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for March 4, 2012 - RF Cafe