This week's crossword puzzle for September 3rd sports an electronics theme. This
being the 3rd day of the month, many of the words begin and/or end and/or contain
with the letter "C." Clues for words containing "C" are marked with an asterisk
(*). All RF Cafe crossword puzzles are custom made by me, Kirt Blattenberger, and
have only words and clues related to RF, microwave, and mm-wave engineering, optics,
mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical subjects. As always, this crossword
contains no names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or plants, movie
stars, or anything of the sort unless it/he/she is related to this puzzle's technology
theme (e.g.,
Reginald Denny,
Hedy Lamarr, or
the Tunguska
event in Siberia). The technically inclined cruciverbalists amongst us will appreciate
the effort. Enjoy!
Reproduction of this puzzle without the express permission of
RF Cafe is prohibited.
acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words
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1. Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (abbr.) * 2. Filter
type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.) 3. Basic element 5. Lubricant
6. 10E1 numerical prefix 7. Physical unit used in the measurement of radioactivity
was named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry * 8.
Mate to a socket 9. Cellular Digital Packet Data * 11. Last stage in a transmitter
(abbr.) 12. Error checking scheme (abbr.) * 14. 1/1000000 prefix * 15.
Chemical symbol for einsteinium 16. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 17. Material
used in the center of an inductor coil * 18. Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment
20. Inductor * 21. Filter type that blocks lower frequencies (abbr.) 23. Cellphone
band just below PCS * 26. Color code for the number 8 27. Heavenly body having
a tail * 29. Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (abbr.) 31. Termination
33. Mate to a bolt 35. Computer monitor (abbr., pl.) * 36. Army-Navy specification
prefix 37. Ability to store a charge (pl.) * 38. Vector multiplication that
returns a vector value (2 wds.) * 39. First magnitude star in Auriga * 42.
Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.) 45. What two data
packets might have experienced on a network * 46. An ion or salt of carbonic
acid, containing carbon and oxygen such as calcium carbonate * 47. System for
guiding aircraft (abbr.) * 49. Type of e-mail address system (abbr.) 52. CDMA
Development Group (abbr.) * 54. Term indicating profitability of a company (abbr.)
57. 30 GHz to 300 GHz 60. Used a printer 61. Gun safety and education organization
(abbr.) 65. Miniature threaded RF connector 68. Singulated piece of IC wafer
71. Stock symbol for Harris Communications 73. Electromotive force (abbr.)
76. Unit of resistance 77. Raise a number to the 3rd power * 78. Studies for
a test just before taking it * 79. International Amateur Radio Union (abbr.)
81. Adds two or more inputs 82. Early computer display screen resolution (abbr.)
* 83. Citizens Broadband Radio Service (abbr.) * 85. Chemical symbol for cobalt
* 86. Type of high-tech data gathering system (abbr.) 88. Not hot * 89.
Make a small adjustments to a system 90. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.) *
91. Logic family * 96. Chemical symbol for radon 97. Regarding light *
99. Vertical Metal Oxide Semiconductor 101. Conductor size unit (abbr.) 102.
Common shorthand reference for a capacitor (pl.) * 105. Type of current flow
(abbr.) * 106. Unit of inductance (abbr.) 107. Wireless phone region *
109. CB slang for CB radio or antenna 110. 1,000 seconds (abbr.) 112. Metric
system (abbr.) * 114. Greek letter (micro) 115. Unit of length (abbr.)
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1. Devices on an axle used to hold a wheel in place * 4. Coder/decoder (abbr.)
* 8. Unit of time (abbr.) 10. State where techno-sleuthing teenagers Carl
and Jerry lived (abbr.) 11. Type of programmable device (abbr.) * 13. RF &
DC power supply manufacturer located in Gloucester, MA * 16. Chemical symbol
for francium 17. Filter type with high rate of out-of-band attenuation (aka "elliptic")
(pl.) * 19. Unit of processor calculation speed, abbr. 20. Type of distribution,
squared * 21. Chemical symbol for holmium 22. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
* 24. Chemical symbol for cadmium * 25. Chemical symbol for nobelium 26.
General Packet Radio Service 28. An abbreviation for "receiver" * 30. Network
department (abbr.) 31. Chemical symbol for lawrencium 32. Solid of rotation
whose sides are the hypotenuse of a right triangle (pl.) * 34. Number system
which uses only the digits 0 to 7 38. Concentric cable type * 40. Multiplexer
(abbr.) 41. Stock symbol for Raytheon 42. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
43. Straight line emanating from a point source 44. Crystal face * 46. A common
RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.) * 47. MS's server-side script engine for dynamically-generated
web pages (abbr.) 48. Opposite of I.D. 50. Short for potentiometer 51.
Chemical symbol for arsenic 52. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
* 53. Popular graphics program * 55. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
* 56. Chemical symbol for selenium 58. Query an input for changes 59. Filter
type that blocks frequencies below and above a specified band (abbr.) 61. Chemical
symbol for nickel 62. It can follow an MS 63. Voltage-current phase mnemonic
64. Type of logic gate (pl.) 66. Period between radar transmitter's output waveform
(abbr.) 67. Part of this website's title 69. Chemical symbol for arsenic
70. Battery cell chemistry type (abbr.) 72. A common battery cell size 73.
Electronics Industry Association (abbr.) 74. Association of North American Radio
Clubs * 75. Weatherproof cover for a radar antenna 77. Chemical symbol for
cobalt * 78. Logic gate output configuration (abbr.) * 79. Multifunctional
silicon devices (abbr.) * 80. 300 MHz to 3 GHz 81. Hub of the solar system
82. Slow flow of metal when under high temperature or great pressure * 83. Software
engineering tool (abbr.) * 84. Centimeter (abbr.) * 85. Mr. Piper's famous
yellow airplane * 86. Enhanced Graphics Adapter 87. Citizens Broadband Radio
Service (abbr.) * 88. Haley had one named after him * 90. Voltage limiter
* 92. Chemical symbol for ruthenium 93. Galilean moon 94. Refers to the
IEEE802.11 networks (abbr.) 95. General Mobile Radio Service (abbr.) 98. 30
kHz to 300 kHz 99. Amateur radio operator who is qualified to administer Amateur
Radio licensing examinations (abbr.) 100. Low Noise Amplifier (abbr.) 103.
Switch position 104. Attenuator 106. Million multiply accumulate operations
(abbr.) * 108. Makes a small adjustments to a system 111. Coefficient of temperature
(abbr.) * 112. Inductor used to block RF signals (pl.) * 113. Key feature
in a high level overvoltage protection device (pl.) 114. Chemical symbol for
magnesium 116. Type of flip-flop 117. Precipitate * 118. Limits voltage
(pl.) *
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