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R-E Puzzler
June 1967 Radio-Electronics

June 1967 Radio-Electronics

June 1967 Radio-Electronics Cover - RF Cafe[Table of Contents]

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Electronics, published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

Mr. Edmund Braun created a couple dozen of these "R-E Puzzlers" for Radio-Electronics magazine in the 1960s. They are akin to crossword puzzles, except there are no Down clues and words, just Across. As you can see in the matrix, he provides one or two letters for each word, with each supplied letter spanning two words. Number 2 gave me some problem since I don't recall having heard of it. Numbers 13 through 15 could present a challenge to the younger generation, but maybe not. There is no phone app available for this R-E Puzzler; you'll have to work it in your noggin or print it out.

R-E Puzzler

R-E Puzzler, June 1967 Radio-Electronics - RF CafeBy Edmund A. Braun

Based on electronic terminology, this only-across-word puzzle should be fairly easy. Each word is connected to the word above and below by one letter. You'll find the answer to last month's puzzle on page 91.

 

1) Device used to measure small values of capacitance.

2) Type of cathode-ray tube used in scanning-converter applications.

3) Radio circuit damped sufficiently to prevent oscillation or resonance.

4) Combination of two dipoles.

5) Atmospheric noise.

6) Alkali metal used in photo-tube cathodes.

7) Flow of electromagnetic radiation concentrated in a desired direction.

8) Package of components which provides complete function.

9) Circuit used to prevent excessive correction in a feedback control system.

10) Unvarying or fixed values.

11) Circuit serving simultaneously as oscillator and heterodyne detector.

12) Electrical power.

13) Conductive graphite coating used in and on cathode-ray tubes.

14) Self-quenching oscillator in which detection occurs in grid circuit.

15) Amplifier circuit used in early tuned-radio-frequency receivers.

16) Eight-electrode tube.

17) Color of band on resistor to represent four.

18) Instrument to measure reciprocal of frequency.

19) Electronic circuit for altering frequency response of an amplifier.

20) Pertaining to the gradual destructive force on meta I by atmosphere, etc.

21) Measured value which ex-presses performance.

22) Line which comes nearer and nearer to a given curve but never touches.

23) Pictorial presentation of relation between two or more variables.

24) A TV camera tube.

25) Pertaining to a system using extremely small electronic parts.

 

Quizzes from vintage electronics magazines such as Popular Electronics, Electronics-World, QST, Radio-Electronics, and Radio News were published over the years - some really simple and others not so simple. Robert P. Balin created most of the quizzes for Popular Electronics. This is a listing of all I have posted thus far.

RF Cafe Quizzes

Vintage Electronics Magazine Quizzes

Vintage Electronics Magazine Quizzes

Vintage Electronics Magazine Quizzes

 

Your Rating:

60-64 Well...l...l

68-72 Pretty good.

76-84 Smart!

88-96 Brilliant!

100 Genius!

Tell the truth, did you sneak a peek?

Solution to R-E Puzzler for June 1967

1) microfaradmeter

2) metrechon

3) aperiodic

4) quadrupole

5) static

6) cesium

7) beam

8) module

9) antihunt

10) constants

11) autodyne

12) wattage

13) aquadag

14) squegger

15) neutrodyne

16) octode

17) yellow

18) wavemeter

19) compensator

20) corrosive

21) parameter

22) asymptote

23) graph

24) orthicon

25) microelectronic

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