Test Equipment Crossword Puzzle
October 19, 2014

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Test Equipment Crossword Puzzle for October 19, 2014 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. S-Parameter measurement instrument (2 wds.)

6. Add two or more inputs

7. 1/6 inch printer's measure

9. Secondary cell using a liquid as an electrolyte (2 wds.)

11. Integrated data onto a carrier wave

13. Chemical symbol for nickel

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

16. Online service

17. High power density battery chemistry (abbr.)

20. Reliability measure (abbr.)

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

26. Electronics components & batteries supplier based in Japan

27. User Datagram Protocol

29. 30 Hz to 300 Hz

30. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)

32. Under self-control (prefix)

34. Virtual Private Network

36. Chemical symbol for nickel

37. Chemical symbol for gadolinium

38. Type of screw (2 wds.)

40. Test document for verifying proper function (abbr.)

41. _/_-___, maker of RF semiconductors and connectors

44. Integrate data onto a carrier wave

45. 1e-6 mA

46. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

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

48. What 16 Down measures (pl.)

51. FET voltage specification (usually hyphenated)

52. Total radiated power (abbr.)

53. Type of digital filter (abbr.)

54. C++, Java, BASIC, or Fortran, for example

56. Test instrument for measuring resistance

58. Internet address (abbr.)

59. Yttrium Aluminum Garnet

61. Greek letter (micro)

62. Radio navigation systems

66. Created an impenetrable physical barrier

70. ELI the ICE ___

71. Mate to a pin (pl.)

76. Chemical symbol for radium

77. Chemical symbol for radium

78. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

79. Apollo 11 astronaut ____ Armstrong

81. Centimeter (abbr.)

82. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)

84. Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss

86. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)

88. Type of memory

89. Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (pl.)

90. Radio teletype (abbr.)

91. Logarithmic unit of ratio (abbr., pl.)

93. Chemical symbol for calcium

94. Chemical symbol for erbium

95. Coaxial cable type with minimum signal attenuation (2 wds.)

98. Under sampled

102. Morse Code for "from"

103. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

104. Instrument used to measure the maximum attained transmitter waveform output level (3 wds., pl.)

1. Mate to a bolt

2. Science of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)

3. An electron tube in which bunching of electrons is produced by electric fields, used in radars & microwave ovens

4. One of two lead types used with 16 Down

5. Color of positive lead used with 16 Down

6. Chemical symbol for selenium

8. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

9. Mr. Röntgen's first name

10. Table type used in software for storing selectable values

11. British astronomer ______ Halley

12. Term for reduction of receiver sensitivity due to overload from a nearby transmitter

13. Chemical symbol for nobelium

15. High-speed logic family

16. Instrument for measuring potential difference using a taut band indicator (2 wds.)

18. Band between RF and BB

19. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)

21. Time delay (abbr.)

22. Filter type that blocks frequencies below and above a specified band (abbr.)

24. Contactless homemade (usually) inductive and/or capacitive test cable end for tracing wireless signals on a PCB or in a chassis (2 ltrs. + 2 wds., pl.)

25. Field Programmable Gate Array (abbr.)

28. High power density battery chemistry (abbr.)

31. Personal Digital Cellular

33. Transformer interwinding connection

35. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

36. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

39. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics (abbr.)

40. Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.)

42. Exponent that returns the original number

43. Network controllers

44. Type of reconfigurable memory (abbr., pl.)

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

50. Airflow rate (abbr.)

55. Type of microwave diode

57. Color quality

60. A type of digital modulation (abbr.)

62. Column of rising hot air

63. Common mode ripple rejection (abbr.)

64. A common battery cell size

65. What 16 Down can be considered if it has a remote interface controller (abbr.)

67. Flash caused by an electric current ionizing a gas or vapor

68. Light

69. Split power into 2 or more paths

71. Registers an event

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

73. Adverse property of Teflon (2 wds.)

74. Circuit or mechanical designer with a Bachelor's or higher degree

75. International phonetic alphabet letter "S"

80. Stock symbol for Lockheed Martin

83. System On Chip

84. Type of current

85. Galilean moon

87. Network department (abbr.)

92. Chemical symbol for bromine

96. Opposite of I.D.

97. Wired Equivalent Privacy (abbr.)

99. Powers pneumatic devices

100. "Texting" (abbr.)

101. Chemical symbol for einsteinium


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Test Equipment Crossword Puzzle Solution for October 19, 2014 - RF Cafe