RF Cafe Crossword Puzzle
January 17, 2016
You've no doubt heard the old admonition that too much of a good thing can be bad. Ignore that warning when working this week's RF Cafe Crossword Puzzle. Coming or going, forward or backward, there is no such thing as too much of this theme. As always, only engineering and science words are used throughout. !yojnE
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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural,
wds. = words
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1. A good thing (2 ltrs + 1 wd.) 5. PC follower 7. Chemical symbol for selenium 9. gniht doog A 13. Finite-Element Model 14. Uses a squeezing tool for attaching a wire lug 15. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.) 16. Hz 19. International Reply Coupon (abbr.) 21. Chemical symbol for krypton 22. National Television System Committee (abbr.) 23. Chemical symbol for tantalum 26. Changes from a "0" to a "1" 29. Place in a holding area 32. 1.602E-19 Joules 34. Akin to WAC, only just in America 35. A good thing (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.) 36. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.) 37. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo 40. Chemical symbol for neodymium 42. Its chemical symbol is Lr 46. Chemical symbol for chlorine 47. ISDN BRI channel 48. Chemical symbol for cesium 49. Galilean moon 50. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 51. Quantum electron property 52. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 53. Change in the carrier frequency of a FM transmitter produced by the modulating signal (pl.) 56. Electrical safety organization (abbr.) 59. Type of flip-flop 60. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.) 63. Even more of a good thing 65. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.) 67. Type of logic gate 69. Speaker for generating high frequencies 71. Greek letter 73. Mate to an RX 74. x, y, or z on Cartesian coordinates 75. Max or min voltage of a waveform (abbr.) 76. Antenna (abbr.) 79. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.) 80. Precision landing system (abbr.) 82. Generated a form of energy arising from the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules 84. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.) 86. gniht doog a fo eroM 87. Opposite of O.D. 88. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.) 89. Even more of a good thing |
1. More of a good thing 2. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.) 3. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.) 4. 1/6 inch printer's measure 5. Type of current flow (abbr.) 6. ________ function, mathematically relates output to input 7. The "S" in ASIC 8. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 9. Chemical symbol for europium 10. ___-back transformer 11. Chemical symbol for arsenic 12. Even more of a good thing 17. Internet address (abbr.) 18. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.) 20. Martin ____, "Test & Measurement World" magazine editor (c2009) 21. Mass unit (abbr., pl.) 24. Online service (abbr.) 25. Volt, meter, pint, pound, eg. 27. Chemical symbol for gallium 28. Chemical symbol for erbium 30. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 31. Unit of time (abbr.) 33. Manufacturers 37. Discoverer of Jupiter's moons 38. Hydrogen, argon, neon, xenon, etc. 39. Another word for each complete winding of an inductor (pl.) 41. Satellite TV system 42. Display type 43. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.) 44. Logical negation operator 45. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc. 46. Computer "brain" (abbr.) 54. Radiation having wavelengths longer than that of red light 55. Old Internet search engine 57. Measure of source/load match 58. Official engineering change document (abbr., pl.) 59. More of a good thing 61. Test equipment (abbr.) 62. Adjust a pot 63. One component of a complex number (abbr.) 64. Electromagnetic (abbr.) 65. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word used by Bill the Cat) 66. Chemical symbol for lawrencium 68. A very god thing (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.) 70. Stock symbol for Texas Instruments 72. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY (abbr.) 77. 30 Hz to 300 Hz 78. Switch position 80. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.) 81. Chemical symbol for strontium 82. Opposite of a LO 83. Type of current 84. Chemical symbol for francium 85. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.) |
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