Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle

February 5, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle, 2/5/2012 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Test equipment that provides a frequency-domain signal display (2 wds., pl.)

8. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)

9. Chemical symbol for beryllium

11. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

13. Dog-leg type curve in a cable (1 ltr + 1 wd.)

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

20. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)

21. French mathematician Siméon-Denis _______

23. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)

24. Generated an official engineering change document

25. Switch position

26. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

27. Ratio of a mechanical drawing

28. One of the Ws in WWW

30. Base of the decimal number system

31. Unit of heat

35. Substance that removes electrons from another reactant

39. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

40. Type of flip-flop

42. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

43. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)

44. Bipolar Field-Effect Transistor

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

46. Voltage-controlled oscillator (abbr.)

48. PC follower

49. Chemical symbol for tin

50. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)

53. Phase of matter between liquid and solid

56. Opposite of transmit

57. Unit of weight

59. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)

61. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame

65. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

66. Test equipment (abbr.)

67. Graphics workshop software

70. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

71. Geometrical figure that is a parallelogram in which all sides are equal

75. Shorthand for liquid oxygen

76. Computer "brain" (abbr.)

77. Length times width (pl.)

78. Personal Digital Cellular

79. Chemical symbol for antimony

81. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

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

2. Chemically reacted to harden

3. Chemical symbol for thallium

4. Amateur Radio Emergency Service (abbr.)

5. Chemical symbol for ytterbium

6. Compliment to a zero in a transfer function (pl.)

7. The "IP" in IP2 and IP3 (2 wds., pl.)

10. Capacity for doing work by virtue of position

11. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide

12. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)

13. Area under a particular administrative or other control

14. Chemical symbol for bismuth

15. Unit of time (abbr.)

16. Add an impurity to a semiconductor

18. Time-Domain Echo Cancellation (abbr.)

19. Miniature threaded RF connector

21. Ratio of the real power flowing to the load to the apparent power in the circuit (2 wds.)

22. Unit of inductance (pl.)

29. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

30. Chemical symbol for thulium

32. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

33. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

34. Automaton

36. Having to do with charged particles

37. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"

38. Type of current flow (abbr.)

41. Adjust a pot

42. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.)

46. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)

47. Chemical symbol for cesium

51. European equivalent to the U.L.

52. Chemical symbol for silicon

54. Chemical symbol for radon

55. Chemical symbol for palladium

58. Workplace safety group (abbr.)

60. Units of heat

62. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

63. Unit of current

64. Precipitate

67. International phonetic alphabet letter "A"

68. U.S. military organization (abbr.)

69. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)

72. Type of logic gate

73. A type of average

74. Stock symbol for Boeing

80. Chemical symbol for bromine

81. Chemical symbol for praseodymium


See solution below

Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution, 2/5/2012 - RF Cafe