RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle

February 26, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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RF Engineering Crossword for 2/26/2012 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Immense star system

5. Ceramic Dual Inline Package

10. A compiler directive

11. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

14. 6th Greek letter

15. Chemical symbol for silicon

16. Integrated data onto a carrier wave

20. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

21. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

22. Ham's code for "Are my signals fading?"

23. Half of a DIP

25. 1E6 nanoseconds

26. Error checking scheme (abbr.)

27. Logarithmic reflectivity unit

30. High-speed logic family

32. Very small aperture terminal

34. Geometrically defined figure with the same shape as a ring doughnut

36. Glue together

38. One port of an amplifier

39. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)

40. Cable termination type

42. Chemical symbol for gallium

43. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

44. Corral transmitters on common frequencies to assure only one used at a time

46. One port of an amplifier

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

48. Short for terminal

49. Imaging device (abbr.)

50. Programmable logic device type (abbr., pl.)

52. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)

53. Obect orientated programming term

55. Unit of current

57. Type of current

58. Chemical symbol for aluminum

59. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

61. Applied more signal than a circuit can handle

66. Stock symbol for Boeing

67. Chemical symbol for argon

68. Extract information from a modulated signal

69. Ham-ese for Young Lady

70. Numerical prefix meaning 10 (var.)

73. RF connector type

74. ____ Microwave, RF component company in FuJian, China

76. Mr. Morse's first name

77. Added two or more inputs

1. Mr. Kirchhoff's and Mr. Eiffel's first name

2. Application Specific Integrated Circuit (abbr.)

3. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

4. Chemical symbol for arsenic

6. Return-to-Zero (abbr.)

7. Morse Code for "from"

8. Thing in a bill of material

9. Met all test requirements

11. A BPF specification (abbr.)

12. Chemical symbol for cobalt

13. Chemical symbol for cadmium

16. A keyboard key

17. Chemical symbol for niobium

18. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

19. Singulated piece of IC wafer

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

24. Substrate for mounting components (abbr.)

26. Unit of luminosity

27. Vector multiplication that returns a scalar value

28. Chemical symbol for bromine

29. International phonetic alphabet letter "Z"

31. Pertaining to Boolean operations

33. Greek letter, used to indicate summation

34. Multiplied by

35. Hub of the solar system (pl.)

37. Logic gates

39. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)

41. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

45. Greek letter

49. Encased in a protective covering

50. Attenuator configuration (pl.)

51. "Texting" (abbr.)

54. Like a graph axis

56. Precision approach radar (abbr.)

60. Length times width

62. Test equipment (abbr.)

63. A feedback scheme to level out the receiver audio volume (abbr.)

64. Test equipment (abbr.)

65. Chemical symbol for erbium

66. 8 bits

71. Unit of length (abbr.)

72. Chemical symbol for gold

74. Unit of length (abbr.)

75. 1/6 inch printer's measure


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RF Engineering Crossword Solution for 2/26/2012 - RF Cafe