Radar & Radio Engineering Crossword Puzzle
July 30, 2017

This week's radar and radio engineering-themed crossword puzzle, as is the case every week, contains only words pertaining to science, engineering, amateur radio, physics, mechanics, mathematics, etc. Herein you will never find words having to do with numbnut actors or world leaders, mountains in places nobody has ever heard of, or portmanteaus constructed from words describing freakish social behavior.


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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

Radar & Radio Engineering Crossword Puzzle for July 30, 2017 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. He invented the triode vacuum tube (2 wds.)

6. Small representative graphic

9. Small representative graphics

10. Chemical symbol for copper

12. It can follow an MS

14. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)

16. Project box (pl.)

19. Data transmission pathway

21. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

22. On-the-air meeting of hams at a set time, day and radio frequency

23. Commercial Off-the-Shelf

24. Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss

26. Parts _____

28. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)

29. Internet protocol (abbr.)

30. "Texting" (abbr.)

32. One component of a complex number (abbr.)

33. Country of RF Cafe's residency

34. A BPF specification (abbr.)

35. Plane circular area (pl.)

37. PC follower

38. Chemical symbol for nickel

40. Modulation type (abbr.)

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

42. Constellation : The dragon

44. Equalizer (abbr.)

45. Archaic abbreviation for picowatt

47. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

49. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

50. Opposite of I.D.

51. Below ELF

52. Tool for holding parts while working on them

54. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.)

55. Telecommunications Information Network Architecture (abbr.)

56. Type of memory

57. Shorthand for oxygen

60. Stock symbol for Raytheon

61. Meter/1000

66. Part of a FOR loop

67. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.)

68. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

69. Follow a target on radar

72. Adds two or more inputs

73. Another name for peak-to-average ratio of a waveform (2 wds.)

1. Tie a bundle of wires together

2. International phonetic alphabet letter "E"

3. Switch position

4. Chemical symbol for silicon

5. ___/IP scheme for networked connectivity

6. Fundamental property of an inductor

7. Chemical symbol for cesium

8. Small unit of time (pl.)

11. Decompress a computer file

12. Programmable Logic Device (abbr.)

13. 2 x SSB

14. Type of logic gate

15. One of four lines used in ferrite core memories

17. Internet address (abbr.)

18. Adjust a pot

20. System On Chip

24. Separates the plates of a capacitor (pl.)

25. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)

27. Infrared (abbr.)

28. Unit of time (abbr.)

30. Software for circuit or system design (pl.)

31. Term for asymmetry of a statistical distribution

33. UMTS terrestrial radio access (abbr.)

35. 10E1 numerical prefix

36. Chemical symbol for selenium

37. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

39. Galilean moon

43. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)

46. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

47. Restrain voltage input

48. Chemical symbol for einsteinium

50. Just entering the nonlinear region

51. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)

52. Volt-ohmmeter (abbr.)

53. End of Life (abbr.)

58. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)

59. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)

62. Local Oscillator (abbr.)

63. 1000000 prefix

64. An abbreviation for "receiver"

65. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

69. Chemical symbol for thulium

70. Chemical symbol for krypton

71. Network department (abbr.)


See solution below

 

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Radar & Radio Engineering Crossword Solution for July 30, 2017 - RF Cafe