RF & Microwave Crossword Puzzle
April 21, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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RF & Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for April 21, 2013 - RF Cafe

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1. Opposites of outputs

3. 3-D geometrical figure that is symmetrical about each of three perpendicular axes, and has circular sections along one axis and elliptical sections along the others (pl.)

10. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)

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

13. Stock symbol for Skyworks Solutions

14. Chemical symbol for xenon

15. Cell phone manufacturer

19. Type of wire used to wind baluns and couplers

23. Type of capacitor dielectric

25. Junction between two different metals that produces a voltage related to a temperature difference (pl.)

28. Part of a male connector

29. Type of data storage IC (pl.)

30. Programmable Logic Device (abbr.)

32. Chemical symbol for lithium

33. Country of RF Cafe's residency

34. A trigonometry function that is the reciprocal of the cosine

40. Type of chart

41. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

42. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

43. Mr. Land's instant photo camera

45. Ratio of circumference to diameter

46. Exponent that returns the original number

48. Plural of locus

49. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

50. Related to FM by a differential

51. Pure carrier (abbr.)

52. European equivalent to the U.L.

54. Galilean moon

55. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)

57. Morse Code for "from"

58. Filter type with maximally flat group delay (pl.)

60. Opposite of I.D.

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

63. One port of an amplifier

64. Chemical symbol for silver

65. Related to FM by a differential

66. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

67. 1e-6 mA

68. Length times width

70. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)

72. Chemical symbol for beryllium

73. Doping ions inserted into a semiconductor lattice

77. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

79. 1.602E-19 Joules

80. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)

82. The tip of a PCB probe (pl.)

83. Part of a male connector

84. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)

85. Once around a circuit

86. International phonetic alphabet letter "P"

87. User Datagram Protocol

89. Circuit theorem stating that the effects of multiple individual sources may be summed to yield overall response

96. Impenetrable physical barrier

98. Switch configuration (abbr.)

99. The "E" in BER

100. Chemical symbol for europium

102. Receiver power level circuitry (abbr.)

104. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor

105. Morse Code for "from"

106. Machine for sorting out the constituents of a substance

107. Satellite EHF Communications for Mobile Multimedia

1. O-scope, spectrum analyzer, DMM or thermometer

2. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)

4. Network department (abbr.)

5. Modulation technique that varies the width of pulses in a train (abbr.)

6. Propagation by means of ionospheric reflection

7. Test equipment that provides a time-domain signal display (pl.)

8. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"

9. Created an impenetrable physical barrier

11. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

12. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)

15. Electric enclosure standard organization (abbr.)

16. Type of logic gate (pl.)

17. Unit of length (abbr.)

18. Galilean moon

20. Internet protocol (abbr.)

21. Chemical symbol for thallium

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

24. Negatively charged ion

26. Type of cryptographic algorithm that takes a string and converts it to a numeric code

27. Describes when a synchronous motor has lost "lock"

31. Smaller moon of Mars

34. System On Chip

35. Voltage-current phase mnemonic

36. Chemical symbol for calcium

37. Chemical symbol for argon

38. Chemical symbol for nobelium

39. Chronological information added to data sample (2 wds.)

43. Signal splitter providing an impedance-controlled single input port and multiple output ports (pl., 2 wds.)

44. Type of current

47. End of Life (abbr.)

48. Smartphone display (abbr., pl.)

52. Units of luminosity

53. Chemical symbol for europium

56. Frequency division multiple access (abbr.)

58. Part of a gyroscope that facilitates free movement of the reference sphere

59. A common battery cell size

61. Frequency at which XL = XC (pl.)

62. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)

67. Chemical symbol for nickel

68. Antenna (abbr.)

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

71. Constellation : The whale

74. Chemical symbol for polonium

75. Chemical symbol for lithium

76. Army-Navy specification prefix

77. High power density battery chemistry (abbr.)

78. Astronomical distance of 3.26 light years

81. The "brains" of parallel processing computers

83. Set of poles

86. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)

88. Meet all test requirements

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

91. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

92. Stock symbol for Raytheon

93. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)

94. Chemical symbol for strontium

95. Infrared (abbr.)

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

101. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)

103. Band between RF and BB

105. Decimeter (abbr.)


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RF & Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for April 21, 2013 - RF Cafe