Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle
October 5, 2014

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Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle for October 5, 2014 - RF Cafe

 

ACROSS DOWN
1. Nickname for Percy Hiram Maxim, "The ___ ___" (2 wds.)

6. Term for asymmetry of a statistical distribution, past tense

11. Chemical symbol for helium

12. One port on a BJT (pl.)

13. Chemical symbol for silicon

14. Type of capacitor dielectric

16. Ham radio organization (abbr.)

17. Thing in a bill of material

19. Encased in a protective covering

21. Solid state power amplifier (abbr.)

23. Time division duplex (abbr.)

25. Chemical symbol for thallium

27. Push to Talk (abbr.)

29. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

30. Moon of Saturn with retrograde orbit

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

32. Type of flip-flop

33. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

34. Chemical symbol for nobelium

35. Weight (abbr.)

37. Infrared (abbr.)

38. Solid state power amplifier (abbr.)

42. Unit of resistance (pl.)

44. Very small aperture terminal

45. Moving air

46. Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (abbr.)

48. Unit of energy (pl.)

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

52. With 56 Down, this website's title

54. Opposite of O.D.

56. Chemical symbol for cesium

57. A common battery cell size

58. 1e-6 mA

59. Greek letter used for wavelength

60. Chemical symbol for aluminum

61. RF connector type

63. Chemical symbol for scandium

64. Ham's code for "Can you acknowledge receipt?"

65. Digital intelligence

68. Adjusts a pot

70. Additive white Gaussian noise

71. One factor of a polynomial

72. Automatic Testing, Evaluation & Reporting (abbr.)

73. Chemical symbol for tantalum

75. Doing like an adaptive system

78. Time delay (abbr.)

79. Threaded fastener (pl.)

80. Moon of Saturn with retrograde orbit

1. Test instrument for measuring resistance (pl)

2. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

3. Steel, brass, aluminum, etc.

4. Modulation type (abbr.)

5. Rechargeable battery type (abbr.)

6. Creates an impenetrable physical barrier

7. Chemical symbol for krypton

8. Sporadic E-layer ionospheric propagation (hyph.)

9. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

10. Circumference/pi (pl.)

15. Imaging device (abbr.)

18. Transformer interwinding connection

20. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.)

22. Term for asymmetry of a statistical distribution

24. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.)

25. Unit of weight

26. Constellation : The lion

28. Adjust

33. A coherent monochrome light source

36. Frequency (pl.)

39. Common plastic insulation type (abbr.)

40. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (abbr.)

41. Abbreviation for "power"

43. High Data Rate

46. Ratio of white to black on a CRT (pl.)

47. Move in a raster pattern

49. High frequency semiconductor (abbr.)

50. First American woman in space (5,4)

53. Area on a shaft for accommodating a setscrew

54. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

55. Relative power level unit (abbr.)

56. With 52 Across, this website's title

62. CDMA Development Group (abbr.)

64. ARRL's magazine

66. It has units of degrees or radians

67. Length times width, pl.

68. Remove insulation from a wire

69. International phonetic alphabet letter "T"

74. Type of current flow (abbr.)

76. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)

77. Unit of inductance (abbr.)

78. Chemical symbol for terbium


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Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle Solution for October 5, 2014 - RF Cafe