Radio & Radar Crossword Puzzle
November 24, 2013
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.
2013 Crosswords Archive
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December 15
December 8
December 1
November 24
November 17
November 10
November 3
October 27
October 20
October 13
October 6		 September 29
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September 15
September 8
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August 11
August 4
July 28
July 21
July 14
July 7		 June 30
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June 9
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May 19
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April 28
April 21
April 14
April 7		 March 31
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February 17
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Radio & Radar Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 11/24/2013 - RF Cafe


ACROSS DOWN
1. Engineer who experimented with extremely high voltages (2 wds.)
8. Type of data storage IC (abbr.)
9. Second part of this website's title
11. Computer communication scheme (abbr.)
12. One of the first commercial software spreadsheets, (w/123)
14. Gallium nitride chemical symbol
15. A common battery cell size
16. Chemical symbol for lithium
18. The "S" in CMOS
19. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
20. Electronics manufacturer with "meatball" logo
21. Ticker symbol for Analog Devices
24. Trigger diode that conducts current only after its breakdown voltage has been exceeded momentarily (pl.)
25. End of soldering iron
27. Real estate where equipment is located
29. Opening for airflow
30. Type of bias used for compensation (2 wds.)
33. Type of modulation (abbr.)
34. Chemical symbol for gold
35. Greek letter (micro)
36. Below ELF
38. 1/000 of an inch
40. Centimeter (abbr.)
42. Chemical symbol for arsenic
43. Computer "brain" (abbr.)
44. Common gateway interface (abbr.)
45. Part of a FOR loop
46. Opposite of O.D.
49. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
50. Back and forth motion through a central neutral position
53. Most protruding part of planetary rings as seen from distance
54. Crystal surface
56. Satellite TV system
57. Thin Shrink Small Outline Package (abbr.)
59. Keyboard key
60. Galilean moon
61. Chemical symbol for argon
63. Signal splitter providing an impedance-controlled single input port and multiple output ports (pl., 2 wds.)
64. Chemical symbol for europium
65. Part of this website's title
66. A keyboard key
69. Describes when a synchronous motor loses phase lock (pl.)
70. Peak Inverse Voltage
72. A disk operation
74. Crystal surface
75. Measure of heat intensity called		 1. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
2. Charged particle
3. Unit of length (abbr.)
4. "Pi" pad, "T" pad, etc.
5. Chemical symbol for scandium
6. Be behind in phase
7. Colorado Springs military school (abbr.)
8. The fourth state of matter, which occurs in stars and fusion reactors (pl.)
10. Make data difficult to steal
12. Tied a bundle of wires together
13. Threaded tuning rod in a coil (pl.)
15. Powers pneumatic devices
17. Current-voltage phase mnemonic
22. Method other than ion implantation to drive dopants into base semiconductor (pl.)
23. Thing in a bill of material
25. Prefix meaning ground or earth
26. Fundamental property of an inductor
28. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
29. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)
31. Software language by Borland
32. Manifestation of gravity on a mass
35. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
36. Chemical symbol for scandium
37. Upper frequency (abbr.)
38. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
39. Chemical symbol for lithium
41. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
47. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.)
48. Machine for sorting out the constituents of a substance
49. Termination
51. Chemical symbol for calcium
52. Band between RF and BB
53. Between-series connector
55. Describes a hard-to-isolate circuit fault
57. Geometrically defined figure having the same shape as a ring doughnut
58. Sets of poles
60. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
62. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.)
67. Adjust a pot
68. Software engineering tool (abbr.)
70. Precision approach radar (abbr.)
71. Current-voltage phase mnemonic
73. Decimeter (abbr.)
74. Upper frequency (abbr.)

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Radio & Radar Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for 11/24/2013 - RF Cafe