Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle
April 6, 2014

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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for April 6, 2014 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Hz

4. Soaks up RF energy

8. Ham's code for "Shall I decrease power?"

11. Greek letter

12. Modem encoding method (abbr.)

13. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

15. Straight line emanating from a point source

16. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)

17. Chemical symbol for erbium

18. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)

21. Mate to a TX

22. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)

23. Filter transfer function with high rate of out-of-band attenuation

25. _____ Percy Maxim, founder of the ARRL

26. With 18 Down, the world's best engineering website

27. Army-Navy specification prefix

28. The base of a number system

29. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

31. Last statement in a BASIC program

33. Chemical symbol for gallium

34. Type of computer display (abbr.)

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

39. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

40. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)

43. Low altitude earth orbit

45. When the upper atmosphere acts like a waveguide

46. x, y, or z on Cartesian coordinates

47. The gaseous state of water

48. RF IC manufacturer located in Dübendorf, Switzerland

49. 12 inches (pl.)

50. Number having no fractional part

54. Short video segment

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

57. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

58. Chemical symbol for silicon

59. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)

60. Modulation type (abbr.)

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

63. Chemical symbol for nickel

65. Balanced-to-unbalanced device

66. Type of logic gate

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

69. Front end of a rocket (pl.)

71. Quantum electron property (pl.)

73. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.)

76. Decimeter (abbr.)

78. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

79. Intel x86 command for " jump if above"

80. Transformer interwinding connection

82. Switch position

83. 30 GHz to 300 GHz

85. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY (abbr.)

86. Exponent that returns the original number

87. Nordic Mobile Telephone

88. Calibrating a meter so that it shows a value of zero when zero is being measured

89. Precision approach radar (abbr.)

1. Hang the program

2. It can follow an MS

3. System On Chip

4. Automatic Send-Receive (abbr.)

5. Chemical symbol for berkelium

6. Chemical symbol for bismuth

7. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)

8. Ham's code for "Shall I send more slowly?"

9. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

10. Heat-resistant glass type

12. Enrico _____, nuclear physicist

14. The "E" in EHF

18. With 26 Across, the world's best engineering website

19. Greek letter used for frequency

20. A disk operation

23. Chemical symbol for chromium

24. Chemical symbol for radon

30. The "Cad" part of NiCad

32. Logical negation operator

33. First man to orbit the earth - Yuri ...

34. Chemical symbol for chlorine

35. Flip-flop control input

36. Electronic assembly transport container (pl.)

38. Upper frequency (abbr.)

39. Chemical symbol for manganese

40. Wheel attachment points

41. Restrain voltage input

42. Unit of time (abbr.)

44. Adjust a pot

46. File name extension for an ASCII file

49. Chemical symbol for francium

51. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)

52. Unit of energy

53. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

55. Unit of time (abbr.)

60. Positive electrode

61. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.)

62. Solid of rotation whose sides are the hypoteneuse of a right triangle

64. Indium Gallium Phosphor semiconductor (abbr.)

65. Its chemical symbol is B

66. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

68. Chemical symbol for cesium

70. _____ conductor

72. Network department (abbr.)

74. Design for Manufacturability (abbr.)

75. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)

77. 1E6 cycle per second

79. Compressed image file format

80. Uppermost surface

81. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)

84. Chemical symbol for iron

85. One port of an amplifier


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