3/19/2008 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle


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RF Cafe: Engineering & science crossword puzzle

ACROSS
1. Miniature threaded RF connector
4. Averages
9. Directions for verifying proper function, abbr.
12. Incandescent bulb
13. An angle of less than 90 degrees
14. Used logic gates
16. A receiver linearity spec, abbr.
17. One port of an amplifier
18. Chemical symbol for calcium
19. 10^1 numerical prefix
20. Maximally flat group delay filter function
23. Voltage values
25. Color quality
27. Method for connecting redundant power supplies
28. Precision landing system, abbr.
29. Quantity of heat equal to 100,000 BTU
31. Ratio of the maximum carrier frequency deviation to the modulating frequency at a given instant in an FM transmitter
32. Divides the signal into pieces
34. Charged particle
36. Type of graph for plotting antenna patterns
37. Gun safety and education organization, abbr.
38. Aircraft tracking systems
43. European space probe which visited Halley's comet
48. Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
49. Opposite of O.D.
51. 10^1 numerical prefix
52. Its chemical symbol is Fe
53. Switch configuration, abbr.
54. Cell phone manufacturer
56. The "L" in ADSL
57. Official Space Shuttle designation
58. Quickly changing portions of waveforms
59. Short Message Service
DOWN
1. Lockout position
2. Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service
3. Automatic Packet Position Reporting System
4. Snail and e- are examples of this
5. Engineering Change Notice, abbr.
6. Chemical symbol for gold
7. Negative Temperature Coefficient
8. Hermetic barrier
9. Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector
10. Technical drawing structure
11. Positive Emitter-Coupled Logic
12. Lower Sideband
15. 10^1 numerical prefix, pl.
21. High voltage resistor manufacturer in Montreal, Quebec, abbr.
22. Containing more than two ports
24. End Of Transmission
25. Opposite of a LO
26. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
27. Having resistance
30. A circuit that takes two or more input signals, and produces an output that includes the sum and difference of those signal frequencies
33. Special diode that can be switched
34. One port of an amplifier
35. 1e-6 mA
36. Radar display, abbr.
38. Common average used for sinewaves, abbr.
39. Volts divided by resistance
40. This, multiplied by inductance yields voltage across the inductor
41. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services
42. Trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse
43. High frequency semiconductor, abbr.
44. Lubricants
45. Adjust a capacitor or resistor
46. Units of weight
47. Exponent that returns the original number
50. Official U.S. military organization, abbr.
51. Singulated piece of IC wafer
55. Mass unit, abbr.


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