Electronics Themed Crossword Puzzle
April 24th, 2022

Here is your custom made Electronics-themed crossword puzzle for April 24th, 2022. All RF Cafe crossword puzzles are custom made by me, Kirt Blattenberger, and have only words and clues related to RF, microwave, and mm-wave engineering, optics, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical subjects. As always, this crossword contains no names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or plants, movie stars, or anything of the sort unless it/he/she is related to this puzzle's technology theme (e.g., Reginald Denny or the Tunguska event in Siberia). The technically inclined cruciverbalists amongst us will appreciate the effort. Enjoy!

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

Electronics Theme Crossword Puzzle for April 24th, 2022 - RF Cafe

1. Modem encoding method (abbr.)
4. Put into motion
10. Telex-Over-Radio (abbr.)
13. One port on a BJT
15. After Uranus
17. Occlusion of one heavenly body by another
18. Electronically imaged a document
19. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
20. Governmental agency that monitors pollution (abbr.)
21. European equivalent to the U.L.
22. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
24. Opposite of a LO
26. PCB mask exposing ray (abbr.)
28. Type of current flow (abbr.)
29. InP (2 wds.)
36. Negatively doped silicon
37. Diode type used as a voltage regulator (pl.)
38. Mathematical table whose entries come from a fixed finite set of symbols (abbr.)
39. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
41. Subject a circuit to extreme operation
45. Structure of columns and rows
49. Radio receiver scheme which mixes a second frequency (LO) with the incoming radio signals
51. Related to FM by a differential
52. Chemical symbol for gallium
53. Switch position
54. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
55. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
57. Substrate for mounting components (abbr.)
59. 1.602E-19 Joules
61. Curve produced when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base
65. The "E" in TEM
69. Device attached to an antenna mast which rotates it so that the antenna can point in different directions
70. Extract information from a modulated signal
71. A keyboard key
72. Which plane geometric figure has eight straight sides
73. ELI the ICE ___

1. Wire or cable connecting a radio to an antenna
2. Miniature RF connector
3. International phonetic alphabet letter "K"
4. Test document for verifying proper function (abbr.)
5. World's largest yearly convention of gadget and device manufacturers (abbr.)
6. Technical drawing structure
7. Most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from distance
8. Temporary Engineering Change document (abbr.)
9. Governmental agency that monitors pollution (abbr.)
10. Tweak a filter for the correct response
11. Exponent that returns the original number
12. Remove oxygen from or add hydrogen to a compound
14. Service of the ARRL that helps hams solve technical problems (abbr.)
16. RF connector type
23. Antenna (abbr.)
24. Color quality
25. Intermodulation (abbr.)
26. A compiler directive
27. Virtual Private Network
28. Agilent's (now Keysight) EE design software (abbr.)
30. Chemical symbol for dysprosium
31. Internet protocol (abbr.)
32. Angular distance between one event and another in a regularly recurring cycle
33. O3
34. Chemical symbol for helium
35. Infrared (abbr.)
38. Workplace safety group (abbr.)
40. Parabolic antenna-to-waveguide interface component
41. Add two or more inputs
42. Test point (abbr.)
43. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
44. Unit of energy
45. Unit of weight
46. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
47. Word used in describing 2-D and 3-D object dimensions; i.e., 10 mm __ 25 mm
48. Low Noise Amplifier (abbr.)
49. Solid figure that has every point on its surface equidistant from its center
50. Read-only (abbr.)
55. Stock symbol for Linear Technologies
56. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
57. Scheduling graph type
58. Connector vendor, now owned by FCI in St. Louis, Missouri
59. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
60. Vacuum Tube Voltmeter (abbr.)
62. Line of Sight (abbr.)
63. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)
64. System On Chip
66. Constellation : The lion
67. Engineering Change Notice (abbr.)
68. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)

See solution below

2022 Crosswords Archive

Take a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

All of these crossword puzzles were created using the fabulous Crossword Express (now called "Magnum Opus") software.

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