Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
November 3, 2013

2013 Crosswords Archive

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for November 3, 2013 - RF Cafe 

 
ACROSS DOWN
1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

5. National Bureau of Standards radio station (time signals)

8. A popular spreadsheet

12. Enhanced Datarates for Global Evolution

13. Electro-mechanical switching device

14. Determined temporal distance between events

15. Type of current flow (abbr.)

17. Chemical symbol for tantalum

19. PC follower

20. Chemical symbol for magnesium

22. Chemical symbol for aluminum

24. Amateur radio enthusiast

26. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)

28. Unit of energy

29. Strong cable covering

31. Connector vendor

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

33. Chemical symbol for lithium

35. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)

37. Ratio of circumference to diameter

39. Type of current

40. Chemical symbol for mercury

42. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

44. Enrico _____, nuclear physicist

45. RMS current times RMS voltage

47. Image file format name extension, (pl.)

48. Chemical symbol for manganese

49. Chemical symbol for argon

50. Filter type that blocks lower frequencies (abbr.)

51. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

53. Exponent that returns the original number

55. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

57. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)

58. Create a power supply output w/o a ground reference

60. Leading and trailing edge frequency variation of a CW pulse

61. BER, 8 bits at a time

62. Chemical symbol for neon

64. Type of logic gate

66. Greek letter (micro)

68. Chemical symbol for ytterbium

69. Ham-ese for Young Lady

71. Part of this website's title

73. Stock symbol for Boeing

74. Type of reconfigurable memory (abbr.)

76. _____-wise linear

78. Internet ____, public venue that provide online access

80. Type of shielded RF cable with two inner conductors

81. Personal Digital Cellular

82. Sets of 5 work days

1. Small motored tool for model drilling, grinding, shaping, etc.

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

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

4. Feedback system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)

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

6. Wireless data transfer scheme (abbr.)

7. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)

8. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)

9. An abbreviation for "transmitter"

10. European equivalent to the U.L.

11. He, along with A.A. Michelson, precisely measured the speed of light

16. Layers of a multi-layered PCB

18. Its chemical symbol is Cf

21. Test equipment that causes a meter decrease (dip) when near resonant circuits (3 wds.)

23. Sample group

24. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere

25. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

27. An ellipse has two of them

30. Mate to a TX

34. Metal or plastic rod that connects a potentiometer wiper to a knob

36. Type of microwave diode (pl.)

38. Prefix indicating magnetic properties

41. World's first satellite navigation system (abbr.)

43. Unit of length (abbr.)

44. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

46. 1/6 inch printer's measure

47. Type of film that refracts light

52. Software drafting tool (abbr.)

53. Unit of resistance

54. Chemical symbol for erbium

56. Path followed by a heavenly body around a star (pl.)

59. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

63. Constellation : The lyre

65. Used logic gates

67. RF ____, the world's best engineering website

70. Shorthand for liquid oxygen

72. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

73. Bulk Acoustic Wave

75. Ratio of circumference to diameter

77. Internet protocol (abbr.)

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

 

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for November 3, 2013 - RF Cafe