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1. Hz
4. Soaks up RF energy
8. Ham's code for "Shall I decrease power?"
11. Greek letter
12. Modem encoding method (abbr.)
13. Current-voltage phase
mnemonic
15. Straight line emanating from a point source
16. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
17. Chemical symbol
for erbium
18. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
21. Mate
to a TX
22. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)
23. Filter transfer function with high rate of out-of-band attenuation
25. _____ Percy Maxim, founder of the ARRL
26. With 18 Down,
the world's best engineering website
27. Army-Navy specification
prefix
28. The base of a number system
29. Multifunctional
silicon devices (abbr.)
31. Last statement in a BASIC program
33. Chemical symbol for gallium
34. Type of computer display
(abbr.)
37. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
39. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
40. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)
43. Low altitude earth orbit
45. When the upper atmosphere
acts like a waveguide
46. x, y, or z on Cartesian coordinates
47. The gaseous state of water
48. RF IC manufacturer located
in Dübendorf, Switzerland
49. 12 inches (pl.)
50. Number
having no fractional part
54. Short video segment
56.
A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
57. Unit of capacitance
(abbr.)
58. Chemical symbol for silicon
59. Official Space
Shuttle designation (abbr.)
60. Modulation type (abbr.)
61. Feedback system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)
63. Chemical symbol for nickel
65. Balanced-to-unbalanced
device
66. Type of logic gate
67. Amateur radio abbreviation
for the Oceania region (abbr.)
69. Front end of a rocket
(pl.)
71. Quantum electron property (pl.)
73. Radio Direction
Finding (abbr.)
76. Decimeter (abbr.)
78. Automated Test
Equipment (abbr.)
79. Intel x86 command for " jump if above"
80. Transformer interwinding connection
82. Switch position
83. 30 GHz to 300 GHz
85. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook,
NY (abbr.)
86. Exponent that returns the original number
87. Nordic Mobile Telephone
88. Calibrating a meter so that
it shows a value of zero when zero is being measured
89.
Precision approach radar (abbr.) |
1. Hang the program
2. It
can follow an MS
3. System On Chip
4. Automatic Send-Receive
(abbr.)
5. Chemical symbol for berkelium
6. Chemical symbol
for bismuth
7. Special diode type that can be switched (abbr.)
8. Ham's code for "Shall I send more slowly?"
9. Radio Amateurs
of Canada (abbr.)
10. Heat-resistant glass type
12. Enrico
_____, nuclear physicist
14. The "E" in EHF
18. With 26
Across, the world's best engineering website
19. Greek letter
used for frequency
20. A disk operation
23. Chemical symbol
for chromium
24. Chemical symbol for radon
30. The "Cad"
part of NiCad
32. Logical negation operator
33. First
man to orbit the earth - Yuri ...
34. Chemical symbol for
chlorine
35. Flip-flop control input
36. Electronic assembly
transport container (pl.)
38. Upper frequency (abbr.)
39. Chemical symbol for manganese
40. Wheel attachment points
41. Restrain voltage input
42. Unit of time (abbr.)
44.
Adjust a pot
46. File name extension for an ASCII file
49. Chemical symbol for francium
51. A measure of receiver
quality (abbr.)
52. Unit of energy
53. Chemical symbol
for einsteinium
55. Unit of time (abbr.)
60. Positive
electrode
61. Advanced Research Projects Agency (abbr.)
62. Solid of rotation whose sides are the hypoteneuse of a right
triangle
64. Indium Gallium Phosphor semiconductor (abbr.)
65. Its chemical symbol is B
66. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
68. Chemical symbol for cesium
70. _____ conductor
72.
Network department (abbr.)
74. Design for Manufacturability
(abbr.)
75. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)
77. 1E6 cycle
per second
79. Compressed image file format
80. Uppermost
surface
81. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)
84. Chemical
symbol for iron
85. One port of an amplifier |
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