Electrical Engineering Crossword Puzzle
February 23, 2014

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Electrical Engineering Crosword Puzzle for 2/23/2014 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
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


See solution below

Electrical Engineering Crosword Puzzle Solution for 2/23/2014 - RF Cafe