Wireless Crossword Puzzle
July 21, 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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December 15

December 8

December 1

November 24

November 17

November 10

November 3

October 27

October 20

October 13

October 6

September 29

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September 15

September 8

September 1

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April 7

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March 24

March 17

March 10

March 3

February 24

February 17

February 10

February 3

January 27

January 20

January 13

January 6


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

Wireless Crossword Puzzle for July 21, 2013 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. A line on a map which joins points of equal pressure

5. 2/3 of a triac

9. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)

10. Chemical symbol for tin

11. Image storage format

13. Opposite of O.D.

14. Mate to a bolt

15. O-scope time base action

16. PC follower

18. Fail-____ switch

19. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

20. 1E6 nanoseconds

21. Chemical symbol for ruthenium

22. Chemical symbol for arsenic

23. Degrades or destroys performance

26. Stock symbol for Raytheon

29. Chemical symbol for selenium

30. Distance around the boundary of a circle

33. Chemical symbol for scandium

34. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

36. Subjects a circuit to extreme operation

40. Image file format name extension

42. Unit of admittance

43. Region between semiconductor doping potentials, pl.

45. Wireless application protocol (abbr.)

47. Opposite of a LO

50. Ionized trails of meteors used as a reflecting media (2 wds.)

53. Chemical symbol for neon

55. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

56. _______ strength - measure of resistance from breaking

58. Chemical symbol for thulium

59. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

60. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo

61. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

62. Name given to the most frequently occurring number in a series of numbers

63. Unit of time (abbr.)

64. Path followed by a heavenly body around a star

67. Bulk Acoustic Wave

68. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

69. Name of the second series in the spectrum of hydrogen

71. One port of an amplifier

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

74. Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (abbr.)

75. Web's most popular RF site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)

1. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

2. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse

3. Base Station Transceivers (abbr.)

4. Army-Navy specification prefix

5. Singulated piece of IC wafer

6. Things in a bill of material

7. Volts divided by resistance

8. Chemical symbol for calcium

9. BlackBerry or Jordana for example (abbr., pl.)

11. Bandwidth (abbr.)

12. Components

13. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame

15. Use a filter to assure the spectral content of transmitted signal

17. Tweaked a filter for the correct response

19. Related to FM by a differential

24. Normalized unit of pressure at sea level

25. One of the "E"s in BSEE

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

28. ___/IP scheme for networked connectivity

31. Type of flip-flop

32. Enhanced Datarates for Global Evolution

35. Powers pneumatic devices

36. Type of component package (abbr.)

37. Code for a type of electrical wire insulation (abbr.)

38. Move from cell to cell

39. Chemical symbol for antimony

41. Start frequency (abbr.)

44. Stock symbol for Intel

46. Peak envelope power (abbr.)

48. Galilean moon

49. Negatively charged ion

51. Flip-flop control input

52. International phonetic alphabet letter "R"

54. Exalted-Carrier Single Sideband (abbr.)

56. Min______ and Max_____, in a Karnaugh map

57. Network department (abbr.)

58. Time Division Multiple Access

60. A common IC bondwire metal

62. Microwaves & RF magazine (abbr.)

65. 10 decibels

66. Infrared (abbr.)

67. Low- to mid- frequency RF connector

70. A common battery cell size

71. Band between RF and BB

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


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Wireless Crossword Puzzle Solution for July 21, 2013 - RF Cafe