Wireless Crossword Puzzle - Memorial Day
May 26, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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Red, Blue, and Light Gray squares are for the words.

Wireless Crossword Puzzle for Memorial Day 2013 - RF Cafe

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1. This flag's country (celebrating Memorial Day)

6. Propagation by means of ionospheric reflection

8. Chemical symbol for lutetium

9. 3 MHz to 30 MHz

10. Freely swinging rod with a weight at the end that regulates the mechanism of a clock

14. International phonetic alphabet letter "E"

15. Having both an inner and an outer shield (hyph.)

18. 1/6 inch printer's measure

19. Receiver/transmitter that listens for a transmission and re-transmits it

23. The constellation in which Canopus is located

24. Distance around the boundary of a circle

26. Chemical symbol for lithium

28. The "S" in ASIC

29. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

30. Lowest input level for which a voltage regulator will produce a predetermined output

32. Angle at which a radio signal is refracted in the ionosphere (2 wds.)

34. Antenna structure that connects directly to the feed line (2 wds.)

37. An electrical specification for a motor when it is first started (2 wds.)

39. Scientist sometimes credited with the invention of the telescope, and the discoverer of the four largest moons of Jupiter (2 wds.)

41. Part of IEEE 802.11 protocol

42. Applied + _____________ + Sciences, EM software vendor in Escondido, CA

44. Miniature threaded RF connector

46. Transistors, diodes, ASICs, etc.

1. Unit of current (pl.)

2. Engineering Change Notice (abbr.)

3. International Telecommunications Union

4. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)

5. Type of analysis that uses approximation techniques for solving mathematical problems

6. SI solid unit angle

7. Semiconductor device that varies its transconductance according to light intensity (pl.)

11. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)

12. Singulated piece of IC wafer

13. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin

15. Type of current

16. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

17. Property of an insulator (2 wds.)

20. Type of chart

21. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices

22. Voltage-current phase mnemonic

25. End of transmission (abbr.)

27. Time division duplex (abbr.)

31. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)

32. Leading and trailing edge frequency variation of a CW pulse (pl.)

33. Powers pneumatic devices

35. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.)

36. Mass unit (abbr., pl.)

38. Semiconductor On Insulator (abbr.)

40. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)

43. One port of an amplifier

45. Chemical symbol for arsenic

47. Chemical symbol for erbium


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Wireless Crossword Puzzle Solution for Memorial Day 2013 - RF Cafe