Engineering & Science Crossword Puzzle
November 27, 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 Engineering Crossword 11/27/2011 - RF Cafe


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1. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
4. Miniature RF connector (pl.)
7. Electronic component package type (abbr.)
8. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.)
11. Chemical symbol for helium
13. Megacycles
16. Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (abbr.)
17. The "B" in BER
19. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
21. Connector type
25. Chemical symbol for ruthenium
26. Transformer interwinding connection
28. Constellation : The little bear (2 wds.)
31. IC killer (abbr.)
32. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
33. Unit of length (abbr.)
34. RĂ¡dio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)
35. Type of file operation error (pl.)
38. End of transmission (abbr.)
39. Chemical symbol for chromium
40. Certificate of Successful Completion of Examination (abbr.)
42. Chemical symbol for neon
43. A keyboard key
44. Low altitude earth orbit
47. PhD
51. Type of component package (abbr.)
52. Ham's code for "Can you acknowledge receipt?"
53. Flash caused by an electric current ionizing a gas or vapor
54. Move in a raster pattern
55. Temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (abbr.)
1. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)
2. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)
3. Quickly changing portions of waveforms
5. 1E6 cycle per second
6. Chemical symbol for beryllium
8. 300 MHz to 3 GHz
9. Has a positive phase wrt a reference
10. Chemical symbol for strontium
12. Applied more signal than a circuit can handle
14. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
15. The "I" in IP2 and IP3
18. Type mylar airframe structure covering (2 words)
20. Similar to a laser, but at lower frequencies (pl.)
22. Fail-____ switch
23. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
24. Chemical symbol for bismuth
27. BlackBerry or Palm for example (abbr.)
28. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
29. RF integrated circuit (abbr.)
30. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)
36. Type of current
37. Transitions from solid to liquid phase
41. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame
45. End of Life (abbr.)
46. Type of logic gate
47. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
48. "Calling any amateur radio station"
49. Ham abbreviation for transceiver
50. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
51. Chemical symbol for scandium



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RF Engineering Crossword suloution 11/27/2011 - RF Cafe