2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles
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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.
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ACROSS
1. Unit of capacitance 5. RF & DC power supply manufacturer located in Gloucester, MA
10. RF region defined at less than wavelength/(2 x pi) 16. Frequency division multiple access (abbr.)
17. System On Chip 18. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.) 20. Class of spread
spectrum (abbr.)
21. Chemical symbol for tantalum 23. A common battery cell size
25. One state of matter 26. Mate to a TX 28. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.) 29. European
equivalent to the U.L.
30. Sporadic E-layer ionospheric propagation (hyph.) 33. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY (abbr.)
34. It can follow an MS 36. Technical drawing structure
37. Type of high frequency circuit substrate (abbr.) 38. Antenna (abbr.) 39. _____ RF, RF connector
company located in Wilmington, CA 41. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)
43. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.
44. Chemical symbol for lutetium 45. One of the Ws in WWW 47. Referring to microcircuits 50.
Chemical symbol for niobium 53. Type of component package (abbr.) 54. Practical application of science
59. PCB metal area where component leads attach (pl.)
62. Switch position 64. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
65. 3-phase transformer configuration 66. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.) 67. Current summing point
(pl.) 70. Silicon transistor type 71. Chemical symbol for radium 73. Heatsink feature (pl.)
75. Logarithmic unit of ratio (abbr., pl.) 76. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.) 77. Type of
chart use for project planning 78. A BPF specification (abbr.)
79. Unit of frequency
81. Electromagnetic (abbr.) 83. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
84. 1e-6 mA 85. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.) 88. One type of electron spin
90. Chemical symbol for molybdenum 91. Electronic component package type (abbr.)
93. Connector + ____, RF connector company located in Merlin, OR 95. Empower + __ + _______, RF amplifier
maker in Inglewood, CA 96. ______ cosine filter 97. Wireless phone regions
DOWN
1. Semiconductor device type (abbr.) 2.
Part of this website's title
3. Change connector type 4. Direct Memory Access (abbr.) 6. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.) 7. One
who creates a code version of a semiconductor device 8. Type of current 9. Pertaining to Boolean
operations 11. Between-series connector 12. Type of flip-flop 13. Modem encoding method (abbr.)
14. Network department (abbr.)
15. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
19. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor 22. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
24. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE 26. Greek letter 27. ISDN BRI channel 29. Wireless phone region
31. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.) 32. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.) 33. One port of
an amplifier 34. Chemical symbol for praseodymium 35. Maker of power meters located in Parsippany, NJ
38. Type of data conversion device (abbr.) 39. Printer manufacturer 40. Device for linearly adding two
or more inputs (pl.) 42. Pure carrier (abbr.) 46. Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (abbr.) 48.
Chemical symbol for europium 49. Time delay (abbr.) 51. Brings together 52. Chemical symbol for
polonium 55. After Uranus
56. Once around a circuit 57. Opamp circuit for converting an inductance into a capacitance, and vice
versa 58. Cobham Antenna _______, Antenna design & manufacturer in Suffolk, UK 60. Application
Specific Integrated Circuit (abbr.) 61. Chemical symbol for scandium 63. Current summing point 68.
Logarithmic unit of power 69. Chemical symbol for einsteinium 72. Army-Navy specification prefix
73. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)
74. A "0" or a "1," for instance 77. Global System for Mobile Communications (abbr.)
80. Chemical symbol for zinc 82. Electrical overstress (abbr.) 84. ___, manufacturer of custom RF &
microwave filters, Overland Park, KS (abbr.) 86. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)
87. Chemical symbol for chromium
88. Chemical symbol for dysprosium 89. Weight (abbr.) 91. Chemical symbol for silicon 92. Morse
Code for "from" 94. Ham-ese for Young Lady
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