Engineering Crossword Puzzle

May 27, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for May 27, 2012 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Chemical symbol for bromine

2. Unit of inductance (pl.)

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

13. International phonetic alphabet letter "O"

14. Adjusts

15. Modulation type (abbr.)

17. Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (abbr.)

18. Logical gate type (pl.)

19. Chemical symbol for iron

20. Imaging device (abbr.)

22. Chemical symbol for silicon

23. 10 decibels

25. Chemical symbol for neptunium

26. Unit of frequency

27. Type of logic gate

28. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

30. 1e-6 mA

31. Chemical symbol for silver

32. Ham's code for "What is the name of your station?"

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

37. Chemical symbol for gallium

39. Inventor of the high voltage generator that powers the Jacob's Ladder (2 wds.)

40. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

41. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)

42. A common battery cell size

43. Chemical symbol for radium

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

46. Adds an impurity to a semiconductor

50. Opposite of a LO

52. Antenna (abbr.)

54. Type of component package (abbr.)

56. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)

57. 300 kHz to 3 MHz

59. Negation prefix

61. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)

62. 3-phase transformer configurations

64. R.A. ____, RF consultants

66. Greek letter

67. Useful distance between Tx and Rx

68. Graphics workshop software

69. Chemical symbol for xenon

70. Overlapping "piconets"

71. One port of an amplifier

1. Color representing "0"

2. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor

3. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (abbr.)

4. Stock symbol for National Instruments

5. Type of logic gate (pl.)

6. Ethoxyethane

7. Stock symbol for Raytheon

8. Its chemical symbol is Fe

9. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)

10. "Texting" (abbr.)

12. Prefix meaning "to squeeze"

16. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

19. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

21. Dilbert's dog

23. Stock symbol for Boeing

24. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)

26. First man to orbit the earth - Yuri ...

28. Mr. Packard's (HP) first name

29. Length times width (pl.)

31. Online service

32. Ham's code for "Are you busy?"

33. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)

35. Enhanced Graphics Adapter

36. Amateur Radio Association (abbr.)

38. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)

44. The base of a number system

47. Switch position

48. Device used to make contact with a point to be measured

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

51. Negatively charged ion

53. Chemical symbol for niobium

54. Short for synchronous

55. 1000000 prefix

57. Name given to the most frequently occurring number in a series of numbers

58. 12 inches

60. Shorthand for oxygen

62. Akin to WAC, only just in America

63. Adjust a pot

64. Computer interconnection scheme (abbr.)

65. Logarithmic unit of ratio (abbr., pl.)


See solution below

Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for May 27, 2012 - RF Cafe