Wireless Crossword Puzzle
March 31, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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Wireless Crossword Puzzle for March 31, 2013 - RF Cafe

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

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

9. Chemical symbol for beryllium

11. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

13. Nearest and furthest points to the center of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit (pl.)

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

20. Add solder to tip of iron

21. Describes an "thick" field

23. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)

24. Generated an official engineering change document

25. Chemical symbol for cesium

26. Ratio of circumference to diameter

27. Ratio of a mechanical drawing

28. Output intercept point (abbr.)

30. Gallium nitride chemical symbol

31. Integrates data onto a carrier wave

35. Trigger circuit to convert a given waveform to a square wave output

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

40. Chemical symbol for arsenic

42. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)

43. Indium phosphide

44. Unwanted 60- or 120- Hz modulation due to poor power supply filtering (2 wds.)

45. Slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure

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

48. 1/6 inch printer's measure

49. Opposite of a LO

50. Lubricant

53. Electronically imaged a document

56. Type of aircraft dope

57. Type of data storage IC

59. Common gateway interface (abbr.)

61. O-scope time base action

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

66. Chemical symbol for lutetium

67. _____ rule, a 1950s engineer's tool

70. Type of logic gate

71. Its chemical symbol is Nb

75. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)

76. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

77. Positive electrode

78. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

79. Chemical symbol for bismuth

81. One component of a complex number (abbr.)

82. He united electricity and magnetism into the concept of the electro-magnetic field (3 wds.)

2. 4 GHz to 8 GHz

3. Test point (abbr.)

4. Nearest and furthest points to the center of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit

5. Chemical symbol for ytterbium

6. Compliment to a zero in a transfer function (pl.)

7. 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.)

10. Capacity for doing work by virtue of position

11. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)

12. Singulated piece of IC wafer

13. Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.)

14. Chemical symbol for platinum

15. One port of an amplifier

16. Solid state power amplifier (abbr.)

18. Company that leases lab equipment, in Lake Mary, FL (abbr.)

19. Miniature threaded RF connector

21. Solid figure having twenty plane faces, each being an equilateral triangle

22. Its chemical symbol is Es

29. Chemical symbol for plutonium

30. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

32. European equivalent to the U.L.

33. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

34. One port on a FET

36. Common test for verifying high voltage tolerance w/o breakdown

37. Chemical symbol for manganese

38. Internet protocol (abbr.)

41. Add two or more inputs

42. Ham's code for "Does my frequency vary?"

46. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

47. Chemical symbol for tin

51. Infrared (abbr.)

52. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

54. Unit of length (abbr.)

55. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

58. Asynchronous Communication Interface Adapter (abbr.)

60. ____ Logic: Name give to devices surrounding and assisting processors

62. Last statement in a BASIC program

63. Electrical overstress (abbr.)

64. Device used to make contact with a point to be measured

67. Threaded fastener

68. Low Noise Amplifier (abbr.)

69. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)

72. Switch position

73. Inventor of the pre-quantum atomic model

74. Opposite of O.D.

80. Network department (abbr.)

81. Mate to a TX


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Wireless Crossword Puzzle Solution for March 31, 2013 - RF Cafe