May 30, 2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle

Note: A standard for crossword puzzles is when all words in a clue are capitalized, the solution is the abbreviation or acronym for that clue; e.g., Alternating Current = AC.

2010 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

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RF Cafe - Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle - 5/30/2010

ACROSS

1. Unit of capacitance
5. RF & DC power supply manufacturer located in Gloucester, MA
10. RF region defined at less than wavelength/(2 x pi)
16. Frequency division multiple access (abbr.)
17. System On Chip
18. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
20. Class of spread spectrum (abbr.)
21. Chemical symbol for tantalum
23. A common battery cell size
25. One state of matter
26. Mate to a TX
28. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)
29. European equivalent to the U.L.
30. Sporadic E-layer ionospheric propagation (hyph.)
33. Innovative Power Products, Holbrook, NY (abbr.)
34. It can follow an MS
36. Technical drawing structure
37. Type of high frequency circuit substrate (abbr.)
38. Antenna (abbr.)
39. _____ RF, RF connector company located in Wilmington, CA
41. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)
43. Akin to EEs, CEs, AEs, etc.
44. Chemical symbol for lutetium
45. One of the Ws in WWW
47. Referring to microcircuits
50. Chemical symbol for niobium
53. Type of component package (abbr.)
54. Practical application of science
59. PCB metal area where component leads attach (pl.)
62. Switch position
64. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
65. 3-phase transformer configuration
66. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
67. Current summing point (pl.)
70. Silicon transistor type
71. Chemical symbol for radium
73. Heatsink feature (pl.)
75. Logarithmic unit of ratio (abbr., pl.)
76. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
77. Type of chart use for project planning
78. A BPF specification (abbr.)
79. Unit of frequency
81. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
83. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
84. 1e-6 mA
85. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
88. One type of electron spin
90. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
91. Electronic component package type (abbr.)
93. Connector + ____, RF connector company located in Merlin, OR
95. Empower + __ + _______, RF amplifier maker in Inglewood, CA
96. ______ cosine filter
97. Wireless phone regions

DOWN

1. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)
2. Part of this website's title
3. Change connector type
4. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
6. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
7. One who creates a code version of a semiconductor device
8. Type of current
9. Pertaining to Boolean operations
11. Between-series connector
12. Type of flip-flop
13. Modem encoding method (abbr.)
14. Network department (abbr.)
15. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
19. Common shorthand reference for a capacitor
22. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
24. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
26. Greek letter
27. ISDN BRI channel
29. Wireless phone region
31. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)
32. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
33. One port of an amplifier
34. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
35. Maker of power meters located in Parsippany, NJ
38. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
39. Printer manufacturer
40. Device for linearly adding two or more inputs (pl.)
42. Pure carrier (abbr.)
46. Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (abbr.)
48. Chemical symbol for europium
49. Time delay (abbr.)
51. Brings together
52. Chemical symbol for polonium
55. After Uranus
56. Once around a circuit
57. Opamp circuit for converting an inductance into a capacitance, and vice versa
58. Cobham Antenna _______, Antenna design & manufacturer in Suffolk, UK
60. Application Specific Integrated Circuit (abbr.)
61. Chemical symbol for scandium
63. Current summing point
68. Logarithmic unit of power
69. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
72. Army-Navy specification prefix
73. Fast Fourier transform (abbr.)
74. A "0" or a "1," for instance
77. Global System for Mobile Communications (abbr.)
80. Chemical symbol for zinc
82. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
84. ___, manufacturer of custom RF & microwave filters, Overland Park, KS (abbr.)
86. Lowest power level capable of being demodulated (abbr.)
87. Chemical symbol for chromium
88. Chemical symbol for dysprosium
89. Weight (abbr.)
91. Chemical symbol for silicon
92. Morse Code for "from"
94. Ham-ese for Young Lady


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RF Cafe - 5/30/2010 crossword solution