Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle

August 19, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for August 19, 2012 - RF Cafe

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1. Wire

5. Missed being credited for inventing the telephone because Bell beat him to the patent office earlier in the day

10. Mass unit (abbr.)

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

13. Infrared (abbr.)

14. Software drafting tool (abbr.)

15. Chemical symbol for calcium

16. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

18. The "D" in CD

19. Numerical basis for decibels (abbr.)

20. One state of matter

22. The "A" in DARPA

24. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

25. Digital intelligence

26. High frequency semiconductor (abbr.)

27. Army-Navy specification prefix

28. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)

29. The UK's largest defense electronics contractor (abbr.)

31. Unit of length (abbr.)

32. Mr. Packard's (HP) first name

33. A common battery cell size

35. Dielectric material used to form a hermetic seal for thru-wall conductors

36. Last statement in a BASIC program

37. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.

38. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices

39. Wireless phone region

41. Chemical symbol for gallium

42. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (abbr.)

43. ___-AZIMUTH telescope mount

45. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

47. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)

49. An amplifier port

50. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

51. Enrico _____, nuclear physicist

53. Chemical symbol for cobalt

54. Constellation : The lion

55. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

57. Galilean moon

58. Raise a number to the 3rd power

59. Release control over

61. Person responsible for program spending (abbr.)

63. Impurity in a semiconductor

65. Unit of current

66. Logic family

68. Software storage unit

69. Transition from solid to liquid phase

70. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

71. Type of computer display (abbr.)

72. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

73. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)

74. Chemical symbol for cadmium

75. Mass of an element

76. 2-part adhesive

1. A trigonometry function that is the reciprocal of the sine

2. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

3. International phonetic alphabet letter "L"

4. Chemical symbol for erbium

5. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

6. Was behind in phase

7. Opposite of O.D.

8. Automatic Calibration System (abbr.)

9. Chemical symbol for gallium

10. User input device for a cellphone

11. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

12. Singulated piece of IC wafer

16. One port of an amplifier

17. High-speed logic family

18. State _______ - A type of drawing used in computer science and related fields to describe the behavior of systems

19. Software object reference name

20. Greek letter used for coefficient of reflection

21. Mechanical engineering organization (abbr.)

22. Association of North American Radio Clubs

23. Giving off a flow of electrons, for example

25. Having a set of precise values

27. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

30. Army-Navy specification prefix

34. Duration of transmission

38. Capacity for carrying current

40. Restrain voltage input

41. _____ delay, which describes the time taken for information to pass through a circuit element

42. Up in the air

44. Added a termination

46. ECM response

47. Sets the flip-flop output to "0"

48. Chemical symbol for iron

52. Galilean moon

56. Keyboard key

60. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)

62. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)

64. Unit of length (abbr.)

65. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices

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

68. Facsimile

69. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

70. Unit of length (abbr.)

71. Chemical symbol for calcium

72. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)


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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for August 19, 2012 - RF Cafe