Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle
March 24, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for March 24, 2013 - RF Cafe

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1. Type of antenna with an element made of a single, flexible rod or tube

4. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

7. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)

10. Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (pl.)

14. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)

15. Alcohol, epoxy and gasoline, for example

16. SIP x 2

17. 5 work days

19. Precision landing system (abbr.)

20. Type of logic gate (pl.)

21. Multiprotocol Label Switching (abbr.)

22. Very large unit of apparent power (abbr.)

24. Ties a bundle of wires together

26. Manufacturer of project boxes

28. Automatic repeat request used in AMTOR (abbr.)

30. Amplifier linearity specification (abbr.)

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

33. Ham's code for "Are my signals fading?"

35. Type of computer display (abbr.)

37. Online service

38. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)

40. Move from cell to cell

42. _______ Engineering, equipment enclosure manufacturer in the UK

45. Material testing organization (abbr.)

46. The gaseous state of water

48. Amateur Teleprinter Over Radio (abbr.)

49. Emitted a flash during elextrical discharge

50. Circuit path with very low or 0 ohms of impedance

51. The "N" in AWGN

52. International phonetic alphabet letter "R"

54. Relating to the sun

56. Sets of poles

59. Longitudinal shape-forming structural element

60. Type of propagation above 30 MHz by means of refraction by highly ionized regions around the Earth's poles

62. Impenetrable physical barrier

63. Add solder to tip of iron

64. 36 in. (abbr., pl.)

65. Be behind in phase

67. 30 Hz to 300 Hz

68. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

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

71. Compound used as the frequency determining element in microwave oscillators

74. Ham's code for "Shall I increase power?"

75. Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

77. Cooling device

80. Type of capacitor dielectric

82. Type of memory

83. Logical negation operator

85. Small Office/Home Office (abbr.)

87. Logarithmic unit of power (abbr.)

88. Area outside the passband (pl.)

89. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)

90. Miniature threaded RF connector (pl.)

91. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)

92. Semiconductor lamp

93. Antenna type derived from simple weighted wires dropped from Zeppelin airships

1. DXing term used when validity of DX station is in doubt

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

3. Thing in a bill of material

4. Greek letter often used to represent an angle

5. Stock symbol for Dell Computer

6. Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (abbr.)

7. Generated an official engineering change document

8. 4th rock from the sun

9. Precision landing system (abbr.)

11. Cellular Digital Packet Data

12. Lubricant

13. Switch configuration (abbr.)

18. Large unit of apparent power (abbr.)

21. Maximum Usable Frequency

23. Flash caused by an electric current ionizing a gas or vapor

25. Graph

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

27. Theoretical "single point" antenna used calculate gain

29. Ham's code for "Shall I stop sending?"

31. Line of Sight (abbr.)

32. Calculus operation (pl.)

33. Ham's code for "Shall I send more slowly?"

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

36. _______ Engineering, equipment enclosure manufacturer in the UK

37. Type of propagation above 30 MHz by means of refraction by highly ionized regions around the Earth's poles

38. File name extension for an ASCII file

39. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

41. Similar to a laser, but at lower frequencies

43. Amateur Teleprinter Over Radio (abbr.)

44. System for underwater navigation

45. Length times width, pl.

47. Unit of admittance

49. MS's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages (abbr.)

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

53. ELI the ICE ___

55. Type of antenna constructed from one or more winding(s) of wire or rods (pl.)

57. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

58. Below ELF

60. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

61. Direction of carbon fiber strands

64. Elemental compound used for microwave frequency reference oscillators (abbr.)

66. Image file format name extension

68. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)

69. Lights

70. The last transmission by a station during a contact

72. One state of matter

73. Multichannel multipoint distribution service

74. Organization requiring 25 years of amateur service for membership, abbr.

75. Turn on the computer

76. Solid of rotation whose sides are the hypoteneuse of a right triangle

78. Front end of a rocket

79. Telephony over computer networks

81. Big Blue

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

84. Time division duplex (abbr.)

86. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere


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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for March 24, 2013 - RF Cafe