November 22, 2009 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS
1. Stock symbol for Linear Technologies
5. Mate to a socket
9. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)
12. Small Office/Home Office (abbr.)
13. Greek letter
14. Type of chart
15. Integrated Services Digital Network (abbr.)
16. ECM response
17. Antenna (abbr.)
18. 10^-1 numerical prefix
20. Moon of Saturn discovered in 1789
22. It has units of length^3
25. Precision approach radar (abbr.)
26. PCB interconnect
27. Personal Handy Phone System
28. Country of RF Cafe's residency
31. Opening for airflow
32. IC killer (abbr.)
33. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor (pl.)
34. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)
35. A type of digital modulation (abbr.)
36. Online venue for posting comments & reading replies
37. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
38. A point that is the same distance from every point on the circumference of a circle
39. Printer manufacturer
42. Stock symbol for Linear Technologies
43. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
44. Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator (abbr.)
46. Antenna radiated power measurement (abbr.)
50. Type of memory
51. Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (abbr.)
52. Circuit for firing a magnetron (abbr., pl.)
53. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
54. Signal amplitude degradation due to inefficiency
55. Isolator, oscillator vendor in Tampa, FL
DOWN
1. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)
2. Line of Sight (abbr.); Linux Operating System
3. Amplifier linearity specification (abbr.)
4. Carry electrical current
5. _____-wise linear
6. Plural of locus
7. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)
8. Greek letter used for coefficient of reflection (pl.)
9. Junk e-mail
10. Telecommunications Information Network Architecture (abbr.)
11. Adjusts a pot
19. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)
21. Infrared (abbr.)
22. Vacuum Tube Voltmeter (abbr.)
23. Used logic gates
24. Computer communication schemes (abbr.)
25. It can follow an MS
27. Phase Shift Keying (abbr.)
28. Universal Asynchronous Transmit/Receive (abbr.)
29. Unintended frequency product from a mixer
30. Mechanical engineering organization (abbr.)
32. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)
33. Idea
35. Soften metal
36. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)
37. Chemical symbol for cobalt
38. Object orientated programming term
39. Plug-in for computer bus
40. Basic element
41. Electric enclosure standard organization (abbr.)
42. Sample groups
45. Voltage-Controlled Oscillator (abbr.)
47. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)
48. RĂ¡dio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)
49. A type of digital modulation (abbr.)


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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle