Electrical Engineering Crossword Puzzle
February 23, 2014

Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.
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1. A VSWR killer in coaxial cables 6. Input intercept point (abbr.) 9. Vacuum tube with five electrodes 15. Switch position 16. High-speed circuit-switched data (abbr.) 18. Chart types 20. 300 kHz to 3 MHz 21. Stock symbol for Harris Communications 23. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.) 24. Big Blue 25. Two of these in a whole 26. Abbreviation for minimum voltage 28. Logical negation operator 30. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.) 32. U.S. military organization (abbr.) 33. Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator (abbr.) 34. Apollo 11 astronaut ____ Armstrong 37. Mate to a bolt 39. The "C" in AC or DC 43. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.) 44. Chemical symbol for silver 45. Permissible deviation from a specified value normally expressed as a percentage 48. Joins end-to-end 50. Chemical symbol for thulium 52. Chemical symbol for thallium 53. The design component of total product cost (abbr.) 54. Chemical symbol for neodymium 56. Unit of time (abbr.) 57. 1/000 of an inch 59. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.) 62. Internet protocol (abbr.) 64. Change connector type 67. Put a new program on a computer 71. Type of current flow (abbr.) 73. This website's title, with 78 Across 74. Name of the third series in the spectrum of hydrogen 76. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.) 77. UMTS terrestrial radio access (abbr.) 78. With 73 Across, this website's title 79. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.) 80. Software drafting tool (abbr.) 82. Base of the decimal number system 84. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors 85. ____ Meet, a Ham's flea market 87. Stock symbol for Hewlett Packard 90. Degree of IC sophistication (abbr.) 91. Type of data storage IC 92. A common battery cell size 93. Swap ____, a Ham's flea market 95. Shorthand for troposphere 98. Numerical basis for decibels (abbr.) 99. Circuit board metallization shapes 100. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.) 101. Easily evaporated at normal temperatures

1. Product of force x distance from a point 2. Switch position 3. Band between RF and BB 4. Another word for each complete winding of an inductor 5. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 6. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame 7. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.) 8. Greek letter 10. 1.602E-19 Joules 11. Attenuator topology (hyph.) 12. Lubricant 13. Impurity in a semiconductor 14. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 16. High Data Rate 17. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.) 19. A false signal produced in a superheterodyne receiver’s circuitry 22. System for underwater navigation (pl.) 25. Having power applied (slang) 26. Voice of America 27. 1/1000 prefix 29. Tweak a filter for the correct response 31. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane 32. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.) 35. End of transmission (abbr.) 36. Front edge of a wing (abbr.) 38. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.) 40. Chemical symbol for ruthenium 41. Stock symbol for Raytheon 42. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (abbr.) 46. Chemical symbol for radon 47. Last keyword in a BASIC subroutine (pl.) 49. Unstable edge phenomenon 51. Transitions from solid to liquid phase 55. Type of data conversion device (abbr.) 57. Stock symbol for Microsoft 58. Chemical symbol for lanthanum 60. BER, 8 bits at a time 61. Ties a bundle of wires together 63. A digital counter input line to establish an initial value 64. A common battery cell size 65. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 66. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.) 68. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.) 69. Chemical symbol for lutetium 70. Degrade or destroy performance 72. Software engineering tool (abbr.) 74. Peak envelope power (abbr.) 75. Narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone System (abbr.) 79. The "R" in BER 81. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.) 83. Forerunner to NASA 86. 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 88. Chemical symbol for platinum 89. Ham's code for "Is my transmission being interfered with?" 92. Online service 93. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.) 94. Chemical symbol for tin 96. Opposite of I.D. 97. Galilean moon 98. Chemical symbol for lithium

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