RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle
May 12, 2013

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RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle for May 12, 2013 - RF Cafe

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1. Large-value resistor connected across the filter capacitor in a power supply to discharge the filter capacitors when the supply is turned off (2 wds.)

14. Charged particles

15. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)

16. A common lamp tube gas

18. Band between RF and BB

20. Constellation : The lion

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

22. The cell band above DCN

23. Chemical symbol for argon

24. Below ELF

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

29. Trim a piece of Kapton tape to length

30. General Packet Radio Service

33. Thin layer of material deposited a surface

35. Positive voltage lead color

36. Output intercept point (abbr.)

37. Stock symbol for Yahoo

38. Low altitude earth orbit

39. Greek letter

40. Chemical symbol for neodymium

42. Archimedes is one type of this geometric shape (pl.)

44. Chemical symbol for scandium

45. Bulk Acoustic Wave

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

48. Test equipment (abbr.)

49. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

51. Apply (as a voltage)

52. Stored energy

53. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)

54. Chemical symbol for praseodymium

56. Network department (abbr.)

57. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.

58. One type of electron spin

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

62. Unit of length (abbr.)

63. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)

65. Thing in a bill of material

66. Battery cell chemistry type (abbr.)

68. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

69. End of soldering iron

70. Logical gate type (pl.)

71. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (abbr.)

72. Error checking scheme (abbr.)

73. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

75. Surface Mount Technology

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

77. Maximum Usable Frequency

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

81. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

83. Galilean moon

84. Join a male and a female connector

85. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

86. Term used in soldering to describe the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface

88. Type of source used by a Norton equivalent circuit

2. Chemical symbol for lithium

3. End of Life (abbr.)

4. Product of power and time

5. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

6. Angular speed unit

7. An abbreviation for "receiver"

8. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)

9. Indium phosphide

10. Satellite EHF Communications for Mobile Multimedia

11. Unit of weight

12. Switch position

13. An abrupt change in a parametric value (pl.)

17. A receiver circuit consisting of a beat frequency oscillator and additional circuitry for enhanced reception of SSB signals (2 wds.)

19. Material property in the form of a liquid or a gas

23. Length times width, pl.

25. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)

26. Region of Earth's atmosphere between the ground and the ionosphere

27. Separates the plates of a capacitor (pl.)

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

31. Personal Handy Phone System (abbr.)

32. Small DIP package (abbr.)

33. Area on a shaft for accommodating a setscrew

34. Line of Sight (abbr.)

41. 3rd planet

43. Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment

45. Filter type (abbr.)

46. Wired Equivalent Privacy (abbr.)

49. Type of data storage IC

50. Metric system (abbr.)

55. Type of data storage IC (pl.)

56. Charged particles

59. What kind of a number is divisible only by itself and 1

60. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)

61. "Texting" (abbr.)

62. Enrico _____, nuclear physicist

64. Hz

65. Opposites of outputs

67. First lines in software that call external libraries

68. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)

74. Switch configuration (abbr.)

77. ELI the ICE ___

78. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)

79. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)

80. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

81. Abbreviation for "power"

82. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

84. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

87. Chemical symbol for tin


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RF Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for May 12, 2013 - RF Cafe