Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle

June 3, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for June 3, 2012 - RF Cafe

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1. Mate to a transmitter

4. Surface for a pointing device (2 wds.)

8. Chemical symbol for thallium

11. Threaded fastener

13. Turn on the computer

15. Power supply vendor in Andover, MA

18. Mr. de Forest's first name

19. Positive elementary particle found in the nucleus of all atoms

20. Software engineering tool (abbr.)

21. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

23. Chemical symbol for lutetium

25. Decibels above or below a dipole antenna (abbr.)

27. Adjusts a pot

28. (Repeater Term) A code to activate a repeater function e.g. auto patch, link etc. (2 wds)

31. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)

34. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

36. Input intercept point (abbr.)

38. Specify system parameters

41. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)

43. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

44. Slang for Ham radio equipment made in Japan or the Orient (2 wdds.)

45. Earth's natural satellite

46. Write software

47. Type of logic gate

48. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)

49. Thin-film hybrid and discrete microwave and millimeter-wave components vendor in Sunnyvale, CA

50. Printer output resolution unit (abbr.)

51. Chemical symbol for selenium

56. Internet addresses

58. Describes a periodic waveform with vertical leading edges and sloped trailing edges

61. Transition from solid to liquid phase

62. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

64. Mate to a TX

65. The "B" in BER

66. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

68. A 3rd-order polynomial (pl.)

71. Base 16 number system (abbr.)

72. Opposite of set

73. ____RF, passive RF component manufacturer in Huntersville, NC

74. The largest asteroid

76. Test equipment (abbr.)

78. Subjects a circuit to extreme operation

79. Competitive event where Hams ply their skills against each other for points (pl.)

1. Chemical symbol for rhodium

2. The "C" in CPS

3. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

5. Small DIP package (abbr.)

6. Moon of Saturn with retrograde orbit

7. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"

8. Device to assist in the performance of a chore (pl.)

9. One of the first commercial software spreadsheets, (w/123)

10. Vector multiplication that returns a vector value (pl.)

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

13. Chemical symbol for bromine

14. Part of a FOR loop

16. Software drafting tool (abbr.)

17. The "C" in CMOS

21. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)

22. The cell band above DCN

24. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

26. Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss

29. Helium, iron, silicon, or uranium, for example

30. Join together

32. Constellation : The scales

33. Rise over run, 1st derivative

35. Powers pneumatic devices

36. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

37. Type of e-mail address system (abbr.)

39. BASIC looping keyword

40. Charged particle

41. Flash caused by an electric current ionizing a gas or vapor

42. Common gateway interface (abbr.)

43. One state of matter

52. Voltage-current phase mnemonic

53. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor

54. One of the Ws in WWW

55. Term used in soldering to achieve the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface

57. Mathematical quantity that has magnitude, but no direction

59. Path followed by a heavenly body around a star

60. The "O" in CMOS

61. A circuit that takes two or more input signals, and produces an output that includes the sum and difference of those signal frequencies (pl.)

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

65. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

67. Type of data conversion device (abbr., pl.)

69. Ultraviolet (abbr.)

70. Chemical symbol for calcium

71. Form of energy arising from the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules

75. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

77. Unit of time (abbr.)


See solution below

Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for June 3, 2012 - RF Cafe