Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
August 30, 2015

This week's Wireless Engineering crossword puzzle contains the usual collection of science, math, and engineering terms, and also includes a couple topics that have been in the technical news headlines lately (clues labeled with asterisk *). Enjoy.


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acr. = acronym, abbr. = abbreviation, pl. = plural, wds. = words

Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for August 30, 2015 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. * Tech stock index trading acronym
4. High performance version of Mr. Piper's yellow airplane (2 wds.)
8. Transformer interwinding connection
10. Feedback system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)
11. Structure of columns and rows
13. The UK's largest defense electronics contractor (abbr.)
15. Co-channel rejection ratio (acronym)
17. Weatherproof cover for a radar antenna (pl.)
18. Modulation type (acronym)
19. ECM response
21. Test equipment (abbr.)
22. Abbreviation for peak voltage
23. International phonetic alphabet letter "R"
25. The base of a number system
27. Chemical symbol for thallium
28. A keyboard key
29. The "R" in DRC in substrate layout
32. Chemical symbol for selenium
33. Weight (abbr.)
34. Chemical symbol for lead
35. Not hot
37. Concentric cable type
38. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
40. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)
41. Chemical symbol for gold
42. Online venue for posting comments & reading replies
43. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
44. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
45. Crystal face
47. Positive electrode
49. Chemical symbol for selenium
50. Chemical symbol for lawrencium
51. Force required to impart an acceleration of one centimeter per second per second to a mass of one gram
53. Chemical symbol for thulium
54. Computer messaging service
56. One of the Ws in WWW
59. One state of matter
61. Ratio of output to input power, voltage, current, light, etc. (pl.)
62. * GaAs to ___ transition being made for USMC radar
64. Cellphone band below PCS
66. Reads from disk
67. Mr. Tesla's first name
1. National Television System Committee (abbr.)
2. Unit of angular measurement equal to one 90th of a right angle
3. Unit of liquid measure (abbr.)
4. Junk e-mail
5. Modulated a la Doppler radar
6. Chemical symbol for rubidium
7. Country of RF Cafe's residency
9. Basic element
10. Chemical symbol for argon
12. Electron beam particle (pl.)
13. Graphics file extension
14. Project box
16. Configure a switch to make electrical contact
17. Type of current
18. * Company that just announced entry into embedded capacitor market
20. * Microsoft's version of Siri
23. * Bringing manufacturing and/or design back to your country
24. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
25. Ctr+Alt+Del
26. * Breakthrough fusion reactor built by MIT (2 wds.)
30. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
31. Time delay (abbr.)
33. Write-Once (abbr.)
36. 30 kHz to 300 kHz
37. Chemical symbol for californium
39. Chemical symbol for strontium
41. Part of CAD
42. Enrico _____, nuclear physicist
43. Galilean moon
45. Finite-Element Model
46. Sets the flip-flop output to "0"
48. Parts distributor in Newark, NJ
49. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)
51. The "D" in CD
52. Ham-ese for Young Lady
55. Boolean expression (pl.)
57. One port of an amplifier
58. Electronic Variable Optical Attenuator (acroym)
60. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)
63. Chemical symbol for helium
65. Chemical symbol for tin

See solution below

 

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for August 30, 2015 - RF Cafe