Radio Technology Theme Crossword Puzzle
August 21st, 2022

This custom made Radio Technology theme crossword puzzle from RF Cafe is for August 21st, 2022. "Down" words consisting of four or more letters begin with the first letter of this puzzle's theme. 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 puzzle 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

Radio Technology Theme Crossword Puzzle for August 21st, 2022 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
2. Used a squeezing tool for attaching a wire lug
6. Cessation of the ability to perform a specified function
11. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)
13. Country of RF Cafe's residency (abbr.)
14. Unit of time (abbr.)
15. One sampling port of a directional coupler
19. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
20. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY (abbr.)
23. Line of Sight (abbr.)
24. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
26. Type of high speed Internet service (abbr.)
28. One who attaches components to a PCB
30. Notch type filter (abbr.)
33. Data declaration type in software
35. Logic family (abbr.)
36. Image file format name extension, (pl.)
38. Scheme to maintain proper frequency (abbr.)
40. Concentric cable type
41. 1000000 prefix
43. Be behind in phase
45. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
47. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)
48. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
49. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (abbr.)
51. Chemical symbol for argon
53. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
54. Circuit path with very high or infinite impedance
56. U.S. military organization (abbr.)
57. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)
58. One factor of a polynomial
59. Intermodulation (abbr.)
61. Chemical symbol for nickel
62. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.)
64. Capacitor manufacturer
65. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)
67. Output intercept point (abbr.)
68. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)
69. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
71. Open a fuse
72. Variable Frequency Oscillator
75. The "U" in UHF
78. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)
80. Very common network topology and protocol
84. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
85. CW signals onto which information is modulated
88. Angular speed unit
89. Half of a DIP
91. Logarithmic unit of power
92. A keyboard key
93. 10E1 numerical prefix
95. Akin to dynamics, with no movement
97. Yard (abbr.)
98. Input intercept point (abbr.)
100. CDMA Development Group (abbr.)
101. Component around which wire is wrapped to make an inductor (pl.)
102. Lays bare, such as a wire
1. Opposition to the flow of an electrical current
3. Useful distance between Tx and Rx
4. Bands between RF and baseband
5. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
7. Chemical symbol for lutetium
8. RCA's country of origin (abbr.)
9. Half of the diameter (pl.)
10. The process by which a wave is returned after striking a surface
12. Pure carrier (abbr.)
15. BASIC looping keyword
16. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
17. Chemical symbol for rhodium
18. Logarithmic unit of voltage (abbr.)
21. Short for potentiometer
22. Oscillator type that is referenced to an external source (abbr.)
23. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
25. Chemical symbol for tantalum
26. Sound-pressure level derived using A-weighting
27. Below ELF
29. Electrical process that converts alternating current into direct current
30. Chemical symbol for bismuth
31. Web's most popular radio frequency engineering site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)
32. Small unit of capacitance (abbr.)
34. The imaginary part of apparent power (2 wds.)
36. Mate to an RX
37. Type of component package (abbr.)
39. Fundamental electrical component w/units of ohms (pl.)
42. Frequency at which XL = XC
43. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
44. Chemical symbol for gallium
46. The base of a number system
48. Proportion of two numbers
50. Base of the binary number system
52. Type of memory
53. Part of a male connector
55. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)
58. Extracting information from a modulated signal
60. Opposite of local
63. Display used by air traffic controllers (2 wds.)
65. Chemical symbol for francium
66. Chemical symbol for cesium
70. Chemical symbol for europium
71. Stock symbol for Boeing
73. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)
74. Unit of resistance
76. 30 kHz to 300 kHz
77. Chemical symbol for radium
78. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
79. An unlicensed radio band in the U.S. often used for walkie-talkies (abbr.)
81. Communication type that method makes use of electromagnetic waves
82. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
83. Service of the ARRL that helps hams solve technical problems (abbr.)
85. Unlicensed radio type for personal and business use (abbr., pl.)
86. Modulation type (abbr.)
87. Feature in some waveguides used to increase operational bandwidth
90. Chemical symbol for platinum
91. Type of current
94. Powers pneumatic devices
96. Time delay (abbr.)
97. 36 in. (abbr., pl.)
99. Chemical symbol for polonium
100. Chemical symbol for cobalt

See solution below

 

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Radio Technology Theme Crossword Solution for August 21st, 2022 - RF Cafe