Radio & Radar Crossword Puzzle
May 29, 2016

For the sake of avid cruciverbalists amongst us, each week I create a new crossword puzzle that has a theme related to engineering, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and other technical words. You will never be asked the name of a movie star unless he/she was involved in a technical endeavor (e.g., Hedy Lamarr). Enjoy!


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

Radio & Radar Crossword Puzzle for May 29, 2016 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
1. One port on a FET

5. Half of a DIP

8. 1/12th of a year

12. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.)

13. Request for information from a database

14. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

15. Decimeter (abbr.)

17. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.

19. Chemical symbol for neon

20. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)

22. Equalizer (abbr.)

24. Computer interconnection scheme (abbr.)

26. Type of tank circuit (abbr.)

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

29. International QSL forwarding bureau

31. Subatomic particle having a mass between that of an electron and a proton

32. Voice of America

33. Chemical symbol for radium

35. "Texting" (abbr.)

37. Chemical symbol for platinum

39. With 27D, this website's title

40. Chemical symbol for arsenic

42. Network department (abbr.)

44. _____-Doppler radar

45. Translated higher frequencies to lower frequencies

47. A 3rd-order polynomial

48. Morse Code for "from"

49. Ratio of circumference to diameter

50. Chemical symbol for argon

51. Mate to an RX

53. ___/IP scheme for networked connectivity

55. Infrared (abbr.)

57. Total radiated power (abbr.)

58. Negatively charged ion

60. Change connector type

61. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)

62. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)

64. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)

66. Chemical symbol for manganese

68. Chemical symbol for silicon

69. Chemical symbol for tin

71. Band between RF and BB

73. A BPF specification (abbr.)

74. Things in a bill of material

76. The stuff in the solder core

78. Temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (abbr.)

80. Heavenly body having a tail

81. BER, 8 bits at a time

82. Like an inductor coil with a ferrite form

1. Slang for Ursa Major

2. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)

3. Integrated Services Digital Network (abbr.)

4. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor

5. Add two or more inputs

6. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

7. Chemical symbol for praseodymium

8. ELI the ICE ___

9. Used logic gates

10. Chemical symbol for neptunium

11. Mathematical expansion (2 wds.)

16. Providing a complex conjugate impedance match to the end of a transmission line

18. Electron beam pattern method used in CRTs (2 wds., pl.)

21. A non-commercial radio service as set by a recognized cognizant government agency (2 wds.)

23. Ham's code for "Shall I send more slowly?"

24. Wired Equivalent Privacy (abbr.)

25. Chemical symbol for nobelium

27. 39A + ____, the world's best engineering website

30. Unit of time (abbr.)

34. Half of the diameter (pl.)

36. Referring to a right triangle, the trigonometric function equal to the ratio between the side opposite a given angle, and the hypotenuse, pl.

38. Relating to sound

41. System On Chip

43. Boob tube (abbr.)

44. Peak envelope power (abbr.)

46. Opposite of I.D.

47. Cable television (abbr.)

52. Type of logic gate

53. Time Division Multiplexing

54. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)

56. ______ cosine filter

59. Unit of time (abbr.)

63. BSEE + 2 years

65. Tool for holding parts while working on them

67. Voltage-controlled crystal oscillator (abbr.)

70. Nordic Mobile Telephone

72. Type of digital filter (abbr.)

73. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

75. Chemical symbol for thulium

77. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)

79. Type of logic gate


See solution below

 

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Radio & Radar Crossword Puzzle Solution for May 29, 2016 - RF Cafe