Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle March 18, 2012
2012 Crosswords Archive
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1. The "S" in SOIC 5. Opposition
to the flow of an electrical current 11. Display a radar
target 15. Minutes of Use (abbr.) 16. Chemical symbol
for chlorine 17. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.) 18. Last
stage in a transmitter (abbr.) 20. Miniature threaded RF
connector (pl.) 22. Weight (abbr.) 24. Chemical symbol
for argon 25. Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor 27. Chemical
symbol for francium 28. A keyboard key 30. Indium phosphide
31. Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (abbr.) 34. Input
intercept point (abbr.) 35. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (abbr.)
36. Passing control to another operator 38. 1/6 inch printer's
measure 39. Company that markets Delphi software 40. Analog-to-Digital
(abbr.) 42. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc. 43. Chemical symbol
for niobium 44. PC follower 45. Goes beyond published
limits 47. Abbreviation for peak voltage 49. Instrument
for measuring current 51. International Microwave Symposium
(abbr.) 53. End of transmission (abbr.) 54. Cable television
(abbr.) 56. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.) 57. Semiconductor
On Insulator (abbr.) 59. Chemical symbol for polonium
60. Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.)
61. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.) 62.
Type of modulation (abbr.) 64. A common lamp tube gas
66. Chemical symbol for nobelium 67. System for guiding aircraft
(abbr.) 68. Unit of capacitance (abbr.) 70. Negation prefix
72. Network device that takes commands from another similar
device 73. 3-D geometrical figure that is symmetrical about
each of three perpendicular axes, and has circular sections
along one axis and elliptical sections along the others (pl.)
74. Network configuration type (pl.)
1. Used to indicate an exponent
(pl.) 2. Modulation type (abbr.) 3. Line of Sight (abbr.)
4. Name given to the emission of light from a substance which
has not been heated 5. How long a stepped signal takes to
go from 10% to 90% of its full-scale value (2 wds.) 6. Crystal
filter type (abbr.) 7. Chemical symbol for scandium 8.
Chemical symbol for thallium 9. Type of logic gate 10.
Physical condition surrounding a system; e.g., temperature,
humidity, vibration, altitude (pl.) 11. Means or path by
which a radio signal travels from a transmitting station to
a receiving station (pl.) 12. Agilent's EE design software
(abbr.) 13. Band between RF and BB 14. Device used to
provide a complex conjugate impedance match to the end of a
transmission line (pl.) 19. Chemical symbol for arsenic
21. Type of logic gate 23. Chemical symbol for tantalum
24. Chemical symbol for aluminum 26. 1/000 of an inch
27. Unit of length (abbr.) 29. Inductor used to block RF
signals (pl.) 32. Morse Code for "from" 33. Type of component
package (abbr.) 35. Summers 37. Cooling devices 39.
Electron beam particle 41. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.) 42.
1/000 of an amp (abbr.) 46. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
47. Unit of apparent power (abbr.) 48. Chemical symbol for
platinum 50. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish
a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.) 52. Chemical symbol for
molybdenum 54. Chemical symbol for californium 55. 300
Hz to 3 kHz 58. Switch position 60. Amateur Television
(abbr.) 61. Online service 63. Degree of IC sophistication
(abbr.) 65. Logical negation operator 67. A common battery
cell size 68. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)
69. Start frequency (abbr.) 71. 1e-6 mA
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