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| ACROSS | DOWN | 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. DeForest'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.) |
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