Engineering Crossword Puzzle
June 23, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 6/23/2013 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. An amateur station transmitting communications for the purpose of observation of propagation and reception or other related experimental activities (2 wds.)

10. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)

12. Multiplexer (abbr.)

13. Ratio of circumference to diameter

14. Type of logic gate (pl.)

15. Add solder to tip of iron

16. Army-Navy specification prefix

18. L-C resonating circuit

20. Type of distribution, squared

22. Chemical symbol for praseodymium

23. Total radiated power (abbr.)

24. Degrade or destroy performance

26. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

27. Test equipment (abbr.)

28. Wireless application protocol (abbr.)

29. Chemical symbol for scandium

30. Unit of time (abbr.)

31. BER, 8 bits at a time

32. Chemical symbol for erbium

34. Ham's code for "Does my frequency vary?"

35. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

37. Filter type that blocks frequencies below and above a specified band (abbr.)

38. "Calling any amateur radio station"

39. Chemical symbol for arsenic

41. Type of current flow (abbr.)

42. Beat frequency oscillator (abbr.)

43. 1/6 inch printer's measure

44. Singulated piece of IC wafer

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

47. Greek letter

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

49. Chemical symbol for strontium

50. A common battery cell size

52. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz ______

56. Specialized mobile radio (abbr.)

57. Chemical symbol for gallium

59. Substrate for mounting components (abbr.)

61. Move from cell to cell

63. Morse Code for "from"

64. High-speed logic family

65. A type of digital modulation (abbr.)

67. Weight (abbr.)

68. Method of sending high-speed digital signals on electric distribution wires, a Ham's nemesis (abbr.)

70. Type of flip-flop

71. Antenna structure that connects directly to the feed line (2 wds.)

1. My last name

2. Modulation type (abbr.)

3. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane

4. Shorthand for oxygen

5. Junk e-mail

6. Telecommunications Information Network Architecture (abbr.)

7. Part of a FOR loop

8. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)

9. Workplace safety group (abbr.)

10. End of soldering iron

11. An electrical specification for a motor when it is first started (2 wds.)

17. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)

18. Transformer interwinding connection

19. Mass unit (abbr.)

21. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

24. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

25. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)

28. One of the Ws in WWW

30. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)

32. Equalizer (abbr.)

33. Its chemical symbol is Rn

36. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics (abbr.)

38. Centimeter (abbr.)

40. Half of a DIP

43. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)

46. Once around a circuit

48. Spurious RF products created by metal joints (abbr.)

49. Electronic component package type (abbr.)

51. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.)

53. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

54. One type of electron spin

55. The "R" in BER

58. Automatic Calibration System (abbr.)

60. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)

62. Parts per million (abbr.)

66. Kilovolts (abbr.)

68. Chemical symbol for beryllium

69. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)


See solution below

 

Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for 6/23/2013 - RF Cafe