Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle
August 3, 2014

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 28

December 21

December 14

December 7

November 30

November 23

November 16

November 9

November 2

October 26

October 19

October 12

October 5

September 28

September 21

September 14

September 7

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August 24

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June 8

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March 9

March 2

February 23

February 16

February 9

February 2

January 26

January 19

January 12

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Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle for August 3, 2014 - RF Cafe

 

ACROSS DOWN
1. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

4. Like a carbon flashlight battery (2 wds.)

8. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

11. Person responsible for program spending (abbr.)

12. A common battery cell size

13. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

15. 10 decibels

16. Filter type (abbr.)

17. Chemical symbol for scandium

18. Error checking scheme (abbr.)

21. Type of current

22. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

23. Weather facsimile, Ham abbr.

25. 1/1000 prefix

26. Chemical symbol for thallium

27. Chemical symbol for iron

28. Just entering the nonlinear region

29. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

31. Mr. de Forest's first name

33. 1E6 nanoseconds

34. Big Blue

37. Type of current flow (abbr.)

39. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

40. Amplifier linearity specification (abbr.)

43. Alternative name for a pi meson

45. Degraded or destroyed performance

46. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

47. Online venue for posting comments & reading replies

48. The "E" in EHF

49. Physicist after whom a law describing the direction of EMF and current resulting from induction is named

50. Put a new program on a computer

54. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

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

57. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

58. Chemical symbol for iron

59. Half of DSB

60. Related to FM by a differential

61. Stock symbol for Texas Instruments

63. Type of flip-flop

65. _____ conductor

66. Upper frequency (abbr.)

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

69. Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

71. A complete set of data bits in a stream

73. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

76. Unit for 1,000,000 watt-seconds (abbr.)

78. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)

79. Chemical symbol for tin

80. Ground fault interrupter (abbr.)

82. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

83. A keyboard key

85. Manufacturer of project boxes

86. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)

87. Unit of weight

88. Write software

89. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)

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

2. Transformer interwinding connection

3. Electromotive force (abbr.)

4. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

5. Chemical symbol for radium

6. Chemical symbol for lithium

7. Display type

8. Decibels above or below a dipole antenna (abbr.)

9. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.

10. Up in the air

12. Computer character set (abbr.)

14. Reflected radar or sonar signal (pl.)

18. Wireless phone region

19. Part of this website's title (with 20 Down)

20. Part of this website's title (with 19 Down)

23. Weight (abbr.)

24. Chemical symbol for xenon

30. The "Cad" part of NiCad

32. Enhanced Graphics Adapter

33. One who creates a code version of a semiconductor device

34. Internet protocol (abbr.)

35. Bipolar Field-Effect Transistor

36. Mars has two of these

38. Chemical symbol for calcium

39. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

40. Min______ and Max_____, in a Karnaugh map

41. Adds Joule energy to

42. Morse Code for "from"

44. Non-return to zero (abbr.)

46. International Telecommunications Union

49. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

51. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)

52. Ham abbreviation for transceiver

53. 30 kHz to 300 kHz

55. Chemical symbol for antimony

60. Number divisible only by itself and 1

61. Another word for each complete winding of an inductor

62. Electric enclosure standard organization (abbr.)

64. 2 GHz to 4 GHz

65. The "S" in ASK

66. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.)

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

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

72. Chemical symbol for argon

74. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

75. Engineering Change Notice (abbr.)

77. Java server pages (abbr.)

79. Add two or more inputs

80. Image file format name extension

81. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)

84. Chemical symbol for chromium

85. Stock symbol for Boeing


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Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle Solution for August 3, 2014 - RF Cafe