Engineering Crossword Puzzle

October 7, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Engineering Themed Crossword Puzzle for October 7, 2012 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. Current-voltage phase mnemonic for capacitance

4. Make equal

8. Person responsible for program spending (abbr.)

11. Design for Manufacturability (abbr.)

12. 10 decibels

13. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices

15. Early computer display screen recolution (abbr.)

16. 30 Hz to 300 Hz

17. Chemical symbol for lawrencium

18. A common battery cell size

21. Chemical symbol for cobalt

22. Cellphone band below PCS

23. Association of North American Radio Clubs

25. A concern of Boolean equations

26. Start frequency (abbr.)

27. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors

28. The "E" in BER

29. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)

31. Bands between RF and baseband

33. Chemical symbol for mendelevium

34. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

37. Opposite of a LO

39. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)

40. Image file format name extension

43. Glue together

45. Between-series connector

46. End-to-end joint

47. Impurity in a semiconductor that adds a mobile electron in the conduction band

48. Unit used in the measurement of radioactivity that was named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry

49. Semiconductor lamps

50. Discoverer of Jupiter's moons

54. Frequency division multiple access (abbr.)

56. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)

57. Chemical symbol for erbium

58. Chemical symbol for manganese

59. A keyboard key

60. Network department (abbr.)

61. Flash caused by an electric current ionizing a gas or vapor

63. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

65. Adjustment dial (pl.)

66. Filter type that blocks frequencies below and above a specified band (abbr.)

67. 3 MHz to 30 MHz

69. Bore a hole

71. Provider of services for telecommunications systems in Switzerland (abbr.)

73. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE

76. Chemical symbol for silver

78. Nuclear explosion byproduct harmful to electronic (abbr.)

79. Chemical symbol for holmium

80. Method of self-detection and self-fixing transmission of digital data (abbr.)

82. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

83. Airflow rate (abbr.)

85. Big Blue

86. Digital storage oscilloscope (abbr.)

87. End of Life (abbr.)

88. Add an ion during semiconductor processing

89. Direct Digital Synthesis (abbr.)

1. Theoretical

2. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)

3. Electromotive force (abbr.)

4. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)

5. Chemical symbol for aluminum

6. Chemical symbol for calcium

7. Science of assuring operation amid dense EM background noise (abbr.)

8. Imaging device (abbr.)

9. Feedback system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)

10. Similar to a laser, but at lower frequencies

12. Color representing "0"

14. Added an impurity to a semiconductor

18. Primary U.S. standards organization founded in 1918 (abbr.)

19. A common battery cell size

20. Amateur Radio Emergency Service (abbr.)

23. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)

24. European equivalent to the U.L.

30. Restores batteries

32. Network file transfer protocol (abbr.)

33. Father of radio

34. Logarithmic ratio (abbr.)

35. Short for modulator/demodulator

36. Positive electrode

38. Opposite of O.D.

39. Chemical symbol for molybdenum

40. Bushing used to direct the path of a pushrod

41. Things in a bill of material

42. Unit of length (abbr.)

44. The system than converts common website names to IP addresses (abbr.)

46. Notch type filter (abbr.)

49. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)

51. Chemical symbol for argon

52. Discipline for aircraft navigation in low visibility environments (abbr.)

53. 1/6 inch printer's measure

55. Type of current flow (abbr.)

60. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame

61. Nearest and furthest points to the center of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit

62. Divide a signal into into chunks for sampling

64. Optical storage medium

65. Cutting instrument

66. Stock symbol for Boeing

68. Type of modulation (abbr.)

70. Search engine

72. Centimeter (abbr.)

74. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)

75. High-speed logic family

77. Ground fault interrupter (abbr.)

79. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor

80. Frequency Division Duplex

81. IC killer (abbr.)

84. Unit of length (abbr.)

85. One port of an amplifier


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Engineering Themed Crossword Puzzle Solution for October 7, 2012 - RF Cafe