Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle

July 1, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for July 1, 2012 - RF Cafe 

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1. Mate to a plug

5. A 3rd-order polynomial

8. Image file format name extension (pl.)

12. Study for a test just before taking it

14. Chemical symbol for lutetium

15. Chemical symbol for cadmium

17. Cause the temperature to drop

19. Turn on the computer

20. Radio location system

21. Bore a hole

22. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

24. Network department (abbr.)

25. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

26. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

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

28. Opposite of O.D.

29. Chemical symbol for aluminum

31. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)

32. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

33. Chemical symbol for lithium

35. PC follower

36. Unit of length (abbr.)

38. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

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

40. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)

41. Go beyond published limits

44. Portion of a cone which remains when its upper part has been cut off by a plane parallel to its base

46. Slang for Ursa Major

49. A keyboard key

51. Chemical symbol for gold

52. A common battery cell size

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

54. Online service

56. Voltage-current phase mnemonic

58. The most common conductor metal

59. Pliers-like surgical tool used in the electronics lab (pl.)

60. Negatively charged ions

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

64. Unit of current

66. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word used by Bill the Cat)

68. 1.602E-19 Joules

70. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

71. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

75. Its chemical symbol is I

77. interprets encoded data

78. Power * Time

80. Display type

82. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)

84. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)

85. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

86. Stock symbol for Boeing

87. Morse Code for "from"

89. PC follower

90. Intel x86 command for " jump if above"

91. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

93. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

94. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)

96. Common gateway interface (abbr.)

98. Chemical symbol for lithium

100. Chemical symbol for cobalt

101. Stock symbol for Conexant

102. 1/1000000 prefix

104. Crystal face

105. Co-channel rejection ratio (abbr.)

106. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)

108. Type of current

109. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

110. Stock symbol for Dell Computer

112. Computer monitor (abbr., pl.)

113. Small representative graphics

114. Swap ____, a Ham's flea market

2. Add catalyst

3. Chemical symbol for chromium

4. ___ Friedrich Gauss, after whom the unit of magnetic field strength is named

5. Chemically react to harden

6. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide

7. Imaging device (abbr., pl.)

8. A common IC bondwire metal

9. Galilean moon

10. Logic device for counting (hyph.)

11. Line of Sight (abbr.)

13. _/_-___, maker of RF semiconductors and connectors

14. Software object reference name

16. Change from the initial value due to instability

17. Does it with a mouse

18. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

19. Spurious signals produced in a receiver

23. The "E" in TEM

30. The common connection for all parts of a circuit that connect to the negative side of the power supply (2 wds.)

32. Semiconductor lamps

34. International Amateur Radio Union (abbr.)

35. Prefix meaning "water"

37. Multichannel multipoint distribution service

42. Divided into chunks

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

44. Like a crystal

45. Network controllers

47. Infrared (abbr.)

48. Famous 200 inch telescope

50. Chemical symbol for copper

53. 1/6 inch printer's measure

54. "You've got mail" ISP

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

56. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)

57. Indium phosphide

62. Chemical symbol for berkelium

63. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

65. Energy possessed by a body in motion

66. Army-Navy specification prefix

67. Wireless phone region

69. Russian space probes which visited Halley's comet

70. Have a positive phase wrt a reference

72. Transition from solid to liquid phase

73. Army-Navy specification prefix

74. Opamp circuit for converting an inductance into a capacitance, and vice versa

76. Logic gate to flip logic level

79. Small circle whose center moves round the circumference of a larger one

81. Ceramic Dual Inline Package

83. Did not pass electrical test

86. Part of PCB

88. World's 1st fully electronic digital computer

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

93. General Mobile Radio Service (abbr.)

95. An ellipse has two of them

97. Ground fault interrupter (abbr., pl.)

99. Thing in a bill of material

100. Error checking scheme (abbr.)

103. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

107. Network department (abbr.)

111. Front edge of a wing (abbr.) 


See solution below

Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for July 1, 2012 - RF Cafe