Engineering Crossword Puzzle
February 10, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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Electrical Engineering Crossword Puzzle for February 10, 2013 - RF Cafe

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1. Joining a male and a female connector

6. Region of low relative pressure

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

12. ________ Tone - A tone or beep transmitted by a repeater to indicate that it is okay for the next station to begin transmitting

13. Chemical symbol for holmium

14. Circuit path with very high or infinite impedance

16. This calculus operation yields current through an inductor

17. Tie a bundle of wires together

19. BSEE + 2 years

21. Term for asymmetry of a statistical distribution

23. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)

25. Chemical symbol for plutonium

27. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)

29. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)

30. Electronic component for passing certain frequencies and blocking others

31. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

32. Network department (abbr.)

33. A common battery cell size

34. Type of current

35. Part of a FOR loop

37. Infrared (abbr.)

38. Constellation : The southern cross

42. Indication of quality of received message

44. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.)

45. Stock symbol for Intel

46. Add an impurity to a semiconductor

48. Wheel attachment point

51. 1.602E-19 Joules

52. Unit for 1,000,000 watt-seconds (abbr.)

54. 1/6 inch printer's measure

56. Chemical symbol for thallium

57. Chemical symbol for bismuth

58. Test equipment (abbr.)

59. Remove heat by shedding burned material

60. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)

61. Unit of energy

63. One port of an amplifier

64. 3-phase transformer configuration

65. Audio Frequency Shift Keying (abbr.)

68. International phonetic alphabet letter "P"

70. Telecommunications Information Network Architecture (abbr.), also my sister's name

71. Forerunner to NASA

72. Receiver power level circuitry (abbr.)

73. Chemical symbol for ruthenium

75. Surrounding environmental conditions

78. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

79. Roller bearing devices on sides of rack-mounted equipment (pl.)

80. Software device for tracking elapsed time (pl.)

1. Having no inflection point

2. Type of current flow (abbr.)

3. Small representative graphics

4. Chemical symbol for nobelium

5. Bushing used to direct the path of a pushrod

6. An opening for airflow (pl.)

7. Chemical symbol for arsenic

8. 360 degrees of phase rotation

9. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

10. A type of pushbutton switch

15. Science of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)

18. The Microwave Office software company (abbr.)

20. Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (abbr.)

22. Mr. Blattenberger of RF Cafe

24. An abbreviation for "transmitter"

25. Programmable Logic Device (abbr.)

26. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)

28. Describes when a synchronous motor loses phase lock

33. RF IC manufacturer located in Dübendorf, Switzerland

36. Number system which uses only the digits 0 to 7

39. User Datagram Protocol

40. Greek letter

41. Circuit element connecting PCB layers

43. Ovenized crystal oscillator (abbr.)

46. Stage in a receiver in which the modulation is recovered from the RF signal

47. Radio term for indicating the end of a transmission segment

49. Online auction site

50. Average time it takes for a minority carrier to recombine (pl.)

53. Intentionally blocks communications signals

54. Voltage-current phase mnemonic

55. ELI the ICE ___

56. Prefix meaning ground or earth

62. Gallium nitride chemical symbol

64. Akin to WAC, only just in America

66. Physical unit used to measure capacitance

67. Adjustment dial (pl.)

68. Display a radar target

69. Geometric solid having two ends which are similar, equal, and parallel rectilinear figures, and sides which are parallelograms

74. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)

76. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

77. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)

78. Chemical symbol for erbium


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Electrical Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for February 10, 2013 - RF Cafe