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1. Nickname for Percy Hiram Maxim, "The ___ ___" (2 wds.)
6.
Term for asymmetry of a statistical distribution, past tense
11. Chemical symbol for helium
12. One port
on a BJT (pl.)
13. Chemical symbol for silicon
14. Type of capacitor dielectric
16. Ham radio organization
(abbr.)
17. Thing in a bill of material
19. Encased in a protective covering
21. Solid state power amplifier
(abbr.)
23. Time division duplex (abbr.)
25. Chemical symbol for thallium
27. Push to Talk (abbr.)
29. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
30. Moon of Saturn with retrograde orbit
31. One component of a complex
number (abbr.)
32. Type of flip-flop
33. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
34. Chemical symbol for nobelium
35. Weight (abbr.)
37. Infrared (abbr.)
38. Solid state power amplifier (abbr.)
42. Unit of resistance
(pl.)
44. Very small aperture terminal
45. Moving air
46. Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination
(abbr.)
48. Unit of energy (pl.)
51. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
52. With
56 Down, this website's title
54. Opposite of O.D.
56. Chemical symbol for cesium
57. A common battery
cell size
58. 1e-6 mA
59. Greek letter used for wavelength
60. Chemical symbol for aluminum
61. RF
connector type
63. Chemical symbol for scandium
64. Ham's code for "Can you acknowledge receipt?"
65.
Digital intelligence
68. Adjusts a pot
70. Additive white Gaussian noise
71. One factor of a polynomial
72. Automatic Testing, Evaluation & Reporting (abbr.)
73. Chemical symbol for tantalum
75. Doing like
an adaptive system
78. Time delay (abbr.)
79. Threaded fastener (pl.)
80. Moon of Saturn with retrograde
orbit |
1. Test instrument for measuring resistance (pl)
2. Front edge
of a wing (abbr.)
3. Steel, brass, aluminum, etc.
4. Modulation type (abbr.)
5. Rechargeable battery
type (abbr.)
6. Creates an impenetrable physical barrier
7. Chemical symbol for krypton
8. Sporadic E-layer
ionospheric propagation (hyph.)
9. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
10. Circumference/pi (pl.)
15. Imaging
device (abbr.)
18. Transformer interwinding connection
20. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.)
22. Term for asymmetry of a statistical distribution
24. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency
hopping (abbr.)
25. Unit of weight
26. Constellation : The lion
28. Adjust
33. A coherent monochrome
light source
36. Frequency (pl.)
39. Common plastic insulation type (abbr.)
40. Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (abbr.)
41. Abbreviation for "power"
43. High Data Rate
46. Ratio of white to black on a CRT (pl.)
47. Move in a raster pattern
49. High frequency semiconductor (abbr.)
50. First American woman in space
(5,4)
53. Area on a shaft for accommodating a setscrew
54. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)
55. Relative power level unit (abbr.)
56. With 52 Across, this website's title
62. CDMA Development Group
(abbr.)
64. ARRL's magazine
66. It has units of degrees or radians
67. Length times width, pl.
68.
Remove insulation from a wire
69. International phonetic alphabet letter "T"
74. Type of current flow (abbr.)
76. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)
77. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
78. Chemical symbol for terbium |
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