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1/21/2008 Engineering Crossword Puzzle
Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.
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ACROSS 1. Circuit designed to copy a current through one active device by controlling the current in another active device, 2 wds. 9. Unit of heat 10. Finite Element Analysis, abbr. 12. Chemical symbol for arsenic 14. Type of current flow 15. Information at the beginning of a data block, pl. 19. Megacycles, abbr. 20. Chemical symbol for zinc 21. Negative Temperature Coefficient 23. Automatic repeat request used in AMTOR 24. Mate to a bolt 26. Adjust a pot 27. Devices for interpreting encoded data 29. Abbreviation for acknowledge (also a common word for Bill the Cat) 32. Condensed water 34. Attenuator 35. International QSL forwarding bureau 37. Type of logic gate 38. Modulation type, abbr. 39. Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier 40. A measure of quality of an RX in the presence of two signals 41. Surface mount, abbr. 42. International Reply Coupon 43. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY 45. Upper Sideband 47. Transmission Control Protocol 49. Singulated piece of IC wafer 50. World's first satellite navigation system, abbr. 51. Test equipment manufacturer (now Agilent) 52. 3 MHz to 30 MHz 54. Last stage in a transmitter, abbr. 55. Test point, abbr. 57. One who DXs 58. Plane geometric figure having eight straight sides 59. The "H" in UHF 60. Greek letter 61. Coefficient of temperature, abbr. 62. Chemical symbol for platinum 63. Test equipment, abbr. 65. Base of the binary number system 66. Yttrium Aluminum Garnet 68. Telex-Over-Radio 70. Enhanced Graphics Adapter 71. Motorola's Digital ___ 72. Computer monitor cable type, abbr. 73. One component of a complex number, abbr. 75. Thermoelectric Outer Planet Spacecraft 77. Overcurrent protection device 78. Chemical symbol for magnesium 79. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY, abbr. 81. Swiss mathematician who extensively studied complex numbers 84. Government program to bring electricity to farms, abbr. 85. Division on an oscilloscope's display 89. Finite-Element Model 90. A number that can be expressed as a/b 93. Electrical overstress, abbr. 94. Greek letter 96. Short for potentiometer 97. Automatic Network Analyzer 98. A unit of measurement in the field of typography 99. Chemical symbol for gadolinium 101. The portion of a cone which remains when its upper part has been cut off by a plane parallel to its base 103. Chemical symbol for xenon 104. Chemical symbol for tin 105. Amplifier Solutions Corporation, abbr. 107. Type of memory 108. Used to split signals into two or more paths, pl.
DOWN 1. 4 GHz to 8 GHz 2. Coordinated Universal Time, abbr. 3. Chemical symbol for ruthenium 4. Time division duplex 5. Part of this website's name 6. Original equipment manufacturer, abbr. 7. Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service 8. Filter that rejects lower and higher frequencies 11. Short for "intermodulation" 13. It is produced when water boils 15. Stock symbol for Harris Communications 16. Equalizer, abbr. 17. Chemical symbol for radon 18. One of two primary frequency outputs of a single-balanced mixer 20. Compliments of poles 22. Type of imaging device, abbr. 23. Chemical symbol for argon 25. Part of a FOR loop 26. Hub of the solar system 28. Type of field that will make your hair stand on end 29. Chemical symbol for gold 30. Angle at which a radio signal is refracted in the ionosphere, 2 wds. 31. Chemical symbol for krypton 33. Specification provided for a capacitor bank when first energized (2 wds.) 35. Stock symbol for Boeing 36. Unix, Linux or Windows 42. Formerly Borland 43. Analog-to-Digital 44. European equivalent to the U.L. 46. Lifetime failure rate curve 48. Camera image 50. Type of chart used extensively for project scheduling 51. Base 16 number system 53. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency 54. Sound made by an overstressed capacitor 56. Type of chart 64. Highest point in a rocket's trajectory, pl. 66. Yard, abbr. 67. Chemical symbol for gallium 69. RF connector & cable manufacturer in Suwon, Kyonggi-do, Korea 74. EEPROM that is not electrically erasable 76. Chemical symbol for selenium 77. Chemical symbol for francium 78. Kind of average, pl. 80. Last stage in a transmitter, abbr., pl. 82. Microfarad, abbr. 83. Electromagnetic, abbr. 84. Rαdio Nacional de Angola, abbr. 86. Induim Gallium Phosphor semiconductor, abbr. 87. Chemical symbol for lawrencium 88. 30 GHz to 300 GHz 90. Type of memory 91. PC follower 92. Components on a parts list 95. Logic gate 96. Chemical symbol for plutonium 100. Digital Storage Oscilloscope 102. Semiconductor On Insulator, abbr. 103. Type of logic gate 106. Pure carrier, abbr. 107. One component of a complex number, abbr.
Answer below
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RF Cafe Erie, PA (814) 833-1967
A Disruptive Web Presence GPS Coordinates: N 42°04.577', W 080°11.757'
