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2. High temperature substrate
6. Multivibrator type
11. Notch type filter (abbr.)
13. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)
14. Chemical symbol
for aluminum
15. Halves of bytes
19. Chemical symbol for antimony
20. Science
of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)
23. File name extension
for an ASCII file
24. Aircraft navigation system (abbr.)
26. Bands between RF and
baseband
28. Its chemical symbol is Sc
30. Gallium nitride chemical symbol
33.
Type of capacitors
35. Electronic component package type (abbr.)
36. _____
Microwave East (part of L3-Com), RF component manufacturer located in Hauppauge, NY
38. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)
39. The "D" in RFID (pl.)
40. National
Television System Committee (abbr.)
41. Ham's code for "The net has traffic for you.
Stand by."
42. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)
44. ___/IP scheme for networked
connectivity
46. Crystal filter type (abbr.)
48. Last statement in a BASIC program
49. Printer output resolution unit (abbr.)
50. Enhanced Datarates for Global
Evolution
52. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)
54. Chemical symbol for
thallium
55. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.)
57. Filter type that blocks
upper frequencies (abbr.)
58. Ham's code for "Answer in prearranged order."
59.
Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.)
60. Decimeter (abbr.)
62. Centimeter (abbr.)
63. Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (abbr.)
65. A
common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
66. A fine RF & microwaves magazine (abbr.)
68. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)
69. Special diode type that can be
switched (abbr.)
70. Modulation technique (abbr.)
71. Time Division Multiplexing
72. Type of current
74. An ellipse has two of them
75. Parts per million (abbr.)
78. Bipolar Field-Effect Transistor
81. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
83.
Emitted electromagnetic energy
87. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
88.
Plane geometrical figure that has exactly five straight sides
91. Type of logic gate
(pl.)
92. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
94. Current-voltage phase
mnemonic
95. Type of computer display (abbr.)
96. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
98.
The second-lowest region of the ionosphere found approximately 60 to 70 miles above
Earth (1 ltr. + 1 wd, hyph.)
100. Chemical symbol for niobium
101. Exponent that
returns the original number
103. Color quality
104. Hung the program
105. Test
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1. (Repeater Term) A code to activate a repeater
function e.g. auto patch, link etc. (2 wds)
3. 1 GHz to 2 GHz
4. Internet address
(abbr.)
5. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
7. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
8. Early predecessor
to an online forum (abbr.)
9. Constellation : The scales
10. Machine for sorting
out the constituents of a substance
12. Chemical symbol for rubidium
15. Stock
symbol for National Semiconductor
16. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
17.
1.602E-19 Joules
18. System On Chip
21. Wire diameter unit (abbr.)
22. Software
drafting tool (abbr.)
23. Chemical symbol for gold
25. One component of a complex
number (abbr.)
26. Input intercept point (abbr.)
27. U.S. Spectrum allocation
agency
29. An electrical specification for a motor when it is first started (2 wds.)
30. Chemical symbol for gallium
31. Creating a corona
32. Chemical symbol for
neodymium
34. Electrical process that converts alternating current into direct
current
36. Chemical symbol for neodymium
37. Army-Navy specification prefix
41. Requests for information from a database
42. Chemical symbol for xenon
43.
Time delay (abbr.)
45. Stands for "Practical Systems Engineering," a TE company in
Fisher, IL
47. Fuses metals together using heat
49. Voltage limiter
51.
Deutsche Industrie Normenausschuss
53. Unit of typing speed (abbr.)
54. RF
connector type
56. Last stage in transmitter (abbr., pl.)
59. Negatively charged
antiparticle of a proton
61. Web's most popular RF site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)
64.
Describes particles such as quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons
66. Filter type that
blocks lower frequencies (abbr.)
67. 1/6 inch printer's measure
73. Chemical
symbol for ytterbium
74. Unit of length (abbr.)
76. Precision approach radar
(abbr.)
77. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)
79. Satellite
of Jupiter discovered by Galileo
80. 1/6 inch printer's measure
81. Feedback
system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)
82. Telex-Over-Radio (abbr.)
84.
Strong cable covering
85. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
86.
Singulated piece of IC wafer
88. The cell band above DCN
89. BS__ - the degree
held by many RF Cafe visitors
90. The Brits call them valves
93. Chemical symbol
for argon
94. Galilean moon
97. Automatic network analyzer (abbr.)
99. Chemical
symbol for gadolinium
100. Mate to a bolt
102. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
103. Opposite of a LO |
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