Engineering Crossword Puzzle
June 23, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for August 18, 2013 - RF Cafe

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1. Test equipment that provides a frequency-domain signal display (2 wds.)

13. Type of logic gate (pl.)

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

15. Lower sideband (abbr.)

17. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

20. Sudden, brief increase in wind speed

23. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

24. Type of graph with a circular grid

26. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

27. Chemical symbol for erbium

29. Parameter that is a figure of merit for receiver performance in presence of multiple signals (abbr., pl.)

30. Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter (abbr.)

32. Move from cell to cell

34. Columns of rising hot air

38. Number in a set of products

42. Prefix for font without serifs

43. 30 Hz to 300 Hz

44. International Telecommunications Union

45. Unit of admittance (pl.)

46. Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (abbr.)

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

49. Chemical symbol for neon

50. BlackBerry or Jordana for example (abbr., pl.)

52. Mr. Blattenberger of RF Cafe

54. Ham radio organization (abbr.)

57. Form/fit/function replacement

59. Impenetrable physical barrier

60. Galilean moon

62. Peak envelope power (abbr.)

63. Substrate for mounting components (abbr.)

65. Yttrium Aluminum Garnet

66. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.)

67. Sets of 24-hour periods

68. Like a small DMM

69. Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (abbr.)

2. Ratio of circumference to diameter

3. Chemical symbol for cobalt

4. Total radiated power (abbr.)

5. Type of flip-flop

6. Minutes of Use (abbr.)

7. Automatic Calibration System (abbr.)

8. Chemical symbol for aluminum

9. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)

10. Chemical symbol for ytterbium

11. 1/6 inch printer's measure

12. Opposites of outputs

16. Hydrogen, argon, neon, xenon, etc.

18. Chemical symbol for holmium

19. Chemical symbol for calcium

20. High frequency semiconductors

21. Electrical connection point

22. Part of this website's title

23. Chemical symbol for praseodymium

25. Type of data storage IC

26. Transistor B-C capacitance

28. Feature of PCB layout software that lays down traces automatically

29. Surface Mount Technology

31. Software engineering tool (abbr.)

33. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)

35. Amateur radio enthusiast

36. Entity defined in the second law of thermodynamics

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

39. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)

40. A vector quantity (typically a complex number) representing a sinusoidally varying current or voltage (pl.)

41. Line of Sight (abbr.)

47. Propagation by means of ionospheric reflection

50. Mate to a socket

51. Cellular Digital Packet Data

53. Foot/12

55. A disk operation

56. RF ____, the world's best engineering website

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

61. Personal Digital Cellular

64. Stock symbol for Boeing

65. Ham-ese for Young Lady


See solution below

 

Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for August 18, 2013 - RF Cafe