Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle
January 9, 2011

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.

2011 Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzles

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RF Cafe - 1/9/2011 Engineering Crossword Puzzle


ACROSS DOWN

1. 3 MHz to 30 MHz
3. Min______ and Max_____, in a Karnaugh map
7. Regarding light
11. Collection of electronic records (abbr.)
13. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
15. Ham's code for "Station is leaving the net."
16. Stock symbol for Raytheon
17. Exponent that returns the original number
18. European spectrum allocation agency (abbr.)
20. Capacitor manufacturer in Huntington Station, NY (abbr.)
22. Online service
23. Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (abbr.)
24. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
26. Infrared (abbr.)
27. Chemical symbol for rubidium
28. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
29. Inventor of the high voltage generator that powers the Jacob's Ladder (2 wds.)
32. Electromagnetic (abbr.)
33. Start frequency (abbr.)
34. Its chemical symbol is O
35. Opposites of outputs
36. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
38. Internet protocol (abbr.)
40. Test equipment that provides a frequency-domain signal display (pl.)
45. Mate to a TX
46. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
47. Chemical symbol for cadmium
48. Chemical symbol for bismuth
49. Volt, meter, pint, pound, eg.
52. Precision approach radar (abbr.)
53. High Data Rate
55. Heat sink feature (pl.)
59. Linux Operating System (abbr.)
60. Silicon transistor type (abbr.)
61. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
63. Heat sink feature
64. Chemical symbol for tin
65. Bushing used to direct the path of a pushrod
66. Summed
67. Chemical symbol for chromium

1. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics (abbr.)
2. Semiconductor device type (abbr.)
4. Equalizer (abbr.)
5. RĂ¡dio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)
6. The "M" in EMF
8. Device used to make contact with a point to be measured (pl.)
9. Logic family (abbr.)
10. One port of an amplifier
11. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.)
12. 10 decibels
14. Chemical symbol for arsenic
17. Opposite of I.D.
19. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
21. Study for a test just before taking it
22. Amateur Radio Direction Finding (abbr.)
23. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)
25. Chemical symbol for erbium
28. Chemical symbol for argon
30. He stated the law that the pressure of a given mass of gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature
31. An angle that has less than 90 degrees
36. 12.5 GHz to 18 GHz
37. Common mode ripple rejection (abbr.)
38. Foot/12
39. Added an attenuator
41. Type of computer display (abbr.)
42. Mate to an RX
43. Chemical symbol for ytterbium
44. IC socket type for easy insertion & removal (abbr.)
49. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.)
50. Negation prefix
51. Network department (abbr.)
52. Computer monitor resolution measure (abbr.)
54. Unit of length equal to 5.5 yards
56. Band between RF and BB
57. ___, manufacturer of custom RF & microwave filters, Overland Park, KS (abbr.)
58. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
60. Greek letter used for frequency
62. Chemical symbol for selenium



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RF Cafe - 1/9/2011 Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution