RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle
January 20, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle for January 20, 2013 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Small unit of time (pl.)

12. Fourth largest asteroid

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

14. Workplace safety group (abbr.)

16. Type of current flow (abbr.)

18. Unit of length (abbr.)

20. Chemical symbol for bromine

22. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

23. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

24. Voice of America

26. Plug-in for computer bus

29. Started as HPIB

31. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

32. Foot/12

34. Line of Sight (abbr.)

35. Cooling device

36. Sends a file over a network (abbr.)

37. Type of current

38. Galilean moon

40. Brightest star in the Aquila constellation

43. Abbreviation for minimum voltage

44. Chemical symbol for rubidium

45. Chemical symbol for erbium

47. Frequency Division Duplex

49. Army-Navy specification prefix

50. Online service

52. Morse Code for "from"

53. 1e-6 mA

54. Relative power level unit (abbr.)

55. Network department (abbr.)

56. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)

57. 1E6 nanoseconds

58. Chemical symbol for platinum

59. Unit of length (abbr.)

60. Remove heat by shedding burned material

63. Internet protocol (abbr.)

65. Chemical symbol for silicon

67. Its chemical symbol is Fe

69. Lower sideband (abbr.)

70. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

72. Common solder composition (pre-lead-free, abbr.)

74. Digital encoding of the transmission mode in the vertical sync portion of an SSTV image (abbr.)

75. Logical negation (pl.)

76. Counter ElectroMotive Force (abbr.)

78. Adjust a pot

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

80. A common battery cell size

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

83. Type of logic gate

85. Chemical symbol for selenium

86. Stock symbol for Linear Technologies

88. Semiconductor lamps

90. Battery cell chemistry type (abbr.)

91. Unit of wire size (pl.)

1. Maximum Usable Frequency

2. Stock symbol for Intel

3. Chemical symbol for cobalt

4. Opposite of I.D.

5. Half of DSB

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

7. Chemical symbol for cesium

8. Chemical symbol for nobelium

9. Connector type

10. 3 GHz to 30 GHz

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

15. Exalted-Carrier Single Sideband (abbr.)

17. Rotating circles that are off-axis wrt each other

19. Transmits a signal

21. One element of a scattering matrix

23. Applies (as a voltage)

25. Type of current flow (abbr.)

27. Chemical symbol for aluminum

28. High speed data over telephone lines (abbr.)

29. Ground fault interrupter (abbr.)

30. One port of an amplifier

31. Network department (abbr.)

33. Opposite of a LO

36. Type of modulation (abbr.)

39. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (abbr.)

41. Loose end of a cable

42. Most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from distance

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

46. Chemical symbol for radium

48. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)

51. Opposite of I.D.

52. Decimeter (abbr.)

58. Point of rotation

59. Chemical symbol for manganese

61. Early predecessor to an online forum (abbr.)

62. RF connector type

64. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)

66. Microprocessor vendor

68. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

69. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

71. Centimeter (abbr.)

73. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

75. Stock symbol for National Instruments

77. Thin metallic shiled material around coax cable

80. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)

81. 10 decibels

82. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

84. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)

87. Chemical symbol for chromium

88. Chemical symbol for lutetium

89. Chemical symbol for strontium

90. Chemical symbol for nickel


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RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for January 20, 2013 - RF Cafe