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Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle
February 21, 2015

This week's Amateur Radio crossword puzzle contains the usual collection of science, math, and engineering terms, and amateur radio. You'll never be 'challenged' to know terms relating to movie stars, leaders of obscure countries, or archaic pottery making terms. Enjoy.


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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

Amateur Radio Crossword Puzzle for February 21, 2016 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Entity created by virtue of a changing magnetic field

7. Band between RF and BB

9. Method of sending high-speed digital signals on electric distribution wires, a Ham's nemesis (abbr.)

11. Short for potentiometer

12. Chemical symbol for erbium

13. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (abbr.)

15. Equalizer (abbr.)

17. Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone

20. Part of this website's title

21. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)

23. Greek letter (micro)

24. Uppermost surface

26. RF ____, the world's best engineering website

29. Cellphone band below PCS

30. Basic storage unit of a database

32. Similar air-moving appendages of a fan (pl.)

34. Finite-Element Model

35. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net."

37. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)

38. What do we call the point that is the same distance from every point on the circumference of a circle

42. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)

44. Opposite of a source (pl.)

48. Total Access Communication System (abbr.)

51. Type of logic gate

52. A keyboard key

54. Unit of liquid volume

55. The "S" in SOIC

57. 1e-6 mA

58. Name of the straight line joining the center of a circle to the circumference

60. Type of logic gate (pl.)

62. BASIC looping keyword

64. Manufacturer of project boxes

66. Plate or vane used to direct or control movement of fluid or air within confined area

69. Robert ______-Watt, "Father of Radar"

72. One port of an amplifier

74. Foot/12

76. Personal Digital Cellular

77. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)

79. Type of distribution, squared

80. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)

81. UMTS terrestrial radio access (abbr.)

83. Weight (abbr.)

84. Switch configuration (abbr.)

87. Chemical symbol for aluminum

88. Base of the binary number system

90. Adjust a pot

91. Related to FM by a differential

92. The common connection for all parts of a circuit that connect to the negative side of the power supply (2 wds.)

1. The "E" in BER

2. Test point (abbr.)

3. Unit of length equal to 5.5 yards

4. Thing in a bill of material

5. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)

6. Infrared (abbr.)

7. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

8. Unit of length (abbr.)

9. Nickname given to a satellite

10. Having no resistive component

13. Scheme to maintain proper frequency (abbr.)

14. Unit of conductance

15. Integrated data onto a carrier wave

16. Ham's code for "Shall I increase power?"

18. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane

19. The "C" in CDMA

22. Automatic repeat request used in AMTOR (abbr.)

24. Chemical symbol for tantalum

25. Scheduling graph types

27. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)

28. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)

31. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.)

33. Junk e-mail

36. Output intercept point (abbr.)

39. Negation prefix

40. Passing of a planet in front of the sun

41. Executes a function

43. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)

45. Chemical symbol for nickel

46. Adjustment dial

47. ESD protective apparel

49. Chemical symbol for calcium

50. Below ELF

53. A 3rd-order polynomial (pl.)

56. The "L" in VLF

59. Hub of the solar system

61. Parameter that is a figure of merit for receiver performance in presence of multiple signals (abbr.)

63. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)

65. Type of current

67. A BPF specification (abbr.)

68. End of transmission (abbr.)

70. Code for a type of electrical wire insulation (abbr.)

71. Rechargeable battery type (abbr.)

73. The "T" in ATE

75. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor

78. Computer monitor (abbr., pl.)

81. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.)

82. Conductor size unit (abbr.)

85. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)

86. Decimeter (abbr.)

87. Chemical symbol for arsenic

89. Type of logic gate 


See solution below

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