Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
December 23, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for December 23, 2012 - RF Cafe

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1. He united electricity and magnetism into the concept of the electro-magnetic field (3 wds.)

8. Army-Navy specification prefix

9. Galilean moon

11. Precision approach radar (abbr.)

13. Alloy of iron and low percentages of carbon, manganese, chromium, etc.

17. Positive voltage lead color

20. Online service

21. Under samples

23. Cellphone band below PCS

24. One of Dilbert's workmates

25. Chemical symbol for silicon

26. Chemical symbol for dysprosium

27. Work out the solution to an equation

28. Computer monitor resoultion measure (abbr.)

30. Global System for Mobile Communications (abbr.)

31. Emit electromagnetic energy

35. Synthetic

39. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)

40. Centimeter (abbr.)

42. Morse Code for "from"

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

44. Constellation : The whale

45. Regarding light

46. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)

48. Part of this website's title

49. Infrared (abbr.)

50. A common battery cell size

53. High temperature substrate

56. Transfers charge w/o physical contact

57. ___/IP scheme for networked connectivity

59. A keyboard key

61. Type of antenna (pl.)

65. Satellite of Jupiter discovered by Galileo

66. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

67. Creates an impenetrable physical barrier

70. Unit of current

71. _______ noise matching

75. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)

76. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

77. 36 inches (pl.)

78. World's first satellite navigation system, abbr.

79. Chemical symbol for cesium

81. Related to FM by a differential

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

2. 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

3. Chemical symbol for tin

4. Moon of Saturn discovered in 1672

5. Greek letter

6. An 8-bit unit (pl.)

7. S-Parameter measurement instrument (2 wds.)

10. Large-value resistor connected across the filter capacitor in a power supply to discharge the filter capacitors when the supply is turned off (2 wds.)

11. Programmable logic device (abbr.)

12. Online service

13. Describes when a synchronous motor loses phase lock

14. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)

15. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

16. Semiconductor lamps

18. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

19. High speed data over telephone lines (abbr.)

21. Width vs. length of a computer display

22. Equal about an axis

29. Internet protocol (abbr.)

30. Chemical symbol for gallium

32. Decimeter (abbr.)

33. Opposite of O.D.

34. Computer character set (abbr.)

36. Rechargeable battery type (abbr.)

37. 1E6 nanoseconds

38. Modulation type (abbr.)

41. Maximum Usable Frequency

42. Printer resolution abbreviation

46. Chemical symbol for europium

47. Unit of length (abbr.)

51. Chemical symbol for gold

52. Type of current flow (abbr.)

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

55. Chemical symbol for beryllium

58. Indication of quality of received message

60. Miniature threaded RF connector (pl.)

62. Key feature in a high level overvoltage protection device

63. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)

64. Satellite milieu

67. Greek letter, used to indicate summation

68. Nuclear explosion byproduct harmful to electronic (abbr.)

69. Agilent's EE design software (abbr.)

72. Chemical symbol for tantalum

73. Its chemical symbol is Fe

74. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

80. Chemical symbol for strontium

81. Chemical symbol for praseodymium


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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for December 23, 2012 - RF Cafe