Electronics Crossword Puzzle
January 1974 Popular Electronics

January 1974 Popular Electronics

January 1974 Popular Electronics Cover - RF Cafe Table of Contents

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Popular Electronics, published October 1954 - April 1985. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

Being an old-school old guy (turn 62 this year), I still work the daily crossword puzzle in the daily newspaper - surely you've heard of it, that antiquated print media form of which I am the only house on my street which has it delivered daily. Old habits die hard, as the saying goes. Working the Sudoku puzzles is also a pencil and paper exercise only because of my method of figuring out the numbers. My older sister is a whiz at them, and she does them on her iPhone. But I digress. In addition to the weekly RF Cafe Engineering and Science crossword puzzles I create each week, I also like to post crosswords that appeared in the vintage electronics magazines. This one appeared in a 1974 issue of Popular Electronics.

Electronics Crossword Puzzle

Electronics Crossword Puzzle, January 1974 Popular Electronics - RF Cafe

By James R. Kimsey

Across

1. Special direct-current generator.

5. Space between two electrodes.

7. Specific electrode in a transistor.

9. Paid notice (abbr.).

10. Luminous discharge of electricity.

12. Symbolized by X.

15. Sphere of interest or activity.

16. Grate.

17. Possess.

18. Mineral spring resort.

20. Natural vegetable gum, similar to rubber, used principally as insulation for wires and cables.

24. Bypass, coupling, or tuning.

27. Greek letter designating the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

28. Magazine executive (abbr.).

30. A bolt accessory.

31. Semiconductor using the field effect.

Down

1. Type of cable used with some printed circuit connectors.

2. Type of current that is a nonuniform electron flow, which varies periodically but does not reverse its direction.

3. Resistance to motion.

4. Organ of hearing.

5. Gallium.

6. An attenuator.

8. Color with a slight shade or stain.

9. Type of reversible current (abbr.).

11. Hybrid ring (2 words).

13. Remove data stored on magnetic tape.

14. A continuously reversing change in the magnitude of a given force.

19. Two of a kind (abbr.)

21. Expressed or carried on without words or speech.

22. Storage space immediately below the roof.

23. Mass-audience communication system (abbr.).

24. A metal shield, placed around some components.

25. Type of control (abbr.).

26. To place a binary cell in the one state.

29. Physician (abbr.).


Here are other electronics-themed crossword puzzles from vintage electronics magazines (RF Cafe Crosswords here):

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- November 1958 Popular Electronics

- January 1965 Electronics World

- November 1960 Electronics World

- January 1960 Electronics World

- December 1957 Popular Electronics

- February 1966 Popular Electronics

- September 1957 Popular Electronics

- December 1960 Popular Electronics

- August 1958 Popular Electronics

- July 1960 Electronics World

- September 1965 Electronics World

- August 1962 Electronics World

- May 1958 Radio News

- November 1958 Radio News

- April 1963 Electronics World

- July 1961 Electronics World

- July 1963 Electronics World

- May 1967 Electronics World

- August 1960 Popular Electronics

- March 1973 Popular Electronics

- June 1966 Popular Electronics

- April 1959 Popular Electronics

- January 1963 Electronics World

- October 1961 Electronics World

- December 1965 Electronics World

- September 1960 Electronics World

- July 1958 Radio & TV News

- April 1967 QST

- April 1960 Electronics World

- October 1963 Electronics World

- May 1963 Electronics World

- October 1960 Electronics World

- July 1971 Radio-Electronics

- May 1959 Electronics World

- May 1963 Electronics World

- April 1966 Popular Electronics

- May 1961 Electronics World

- August 1958 Radio News

- July 1945 Radio-Craft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solution to Crossword Puzzle

Electronics Crossword Puzzle Solution, January 1974 Popular Electronics - RF Cafe

 

 

Posted February 7, 2020