Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
February 5, 2012

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.
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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle, 2/5/2012 - RF Cafe


ACROSS DOWN
1. Test equipment that provides a frequency-domain signal display (2 wds., pl.)
8. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
9. Chemical symbol for beryllium
11. Digital transmission figure of merit (abbr.)
13. Dog-leg type curve in a cable (1 ltr + 1 wd.)
17. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
20. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)
21. French mathematician Siméon-Denis _______
23. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
24. Generated an official engineering change document
25. Switch position
26. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
27. Ratio of a mechanical drawing
28. One of the Ws in WWW
30. Base of the decimal number system
31. Unit of heat
35. Substance that removes electrons from another reactant
39. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
40. Type of flip-flop
42. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
43. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)
44. Bipolar Field-Effect Transistor
45. First American to orbit the earth - John ...
46. Voltage-controlled oscillator (abbr.)
48. PC follower
49. Chemical symbol for tin
50. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr., pl.)
53. Phase of matter between liquid and solid
56. Opposite of transmit
57. Unit of weight
59. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)
61. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame
65. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
66. Test equipment (abbr.)
67. Graphics workshop software
70. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)
71. Geometrical figure that is a parallelogram in which all sides are equal
75. Shorthand for liquid oxygen
76. Computer "brain" (abbr.)
77. Length times width (pl.)
78. Personal Digital Cellular
79. Chemical symbol for antimony
81. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
82. Inventor of the high voltage generator that powers the Jacob's Ladder (2 wds.)
2. Chemically reacted to harden
3. Chemical symbol for thallium
4. Amateur Radio Emergency Service (abbr.)
5. Chemical symbol for ytterbium
6. Compliment to a zero in a transfer function (pl.)
7. The "IP" in IP2 and IP3 (2 wds., pl.)
10. Capacity for doing work by virtue of position
11. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide
12. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)
13. Area under a particular administrative or other control
14. Chemical symbol for bismuth
15. Unit of time (abbr.)
16. Add an impurity to a semiconductor
18. Time-Domain Echo Cancellation (abbr.)
19. Miniature threaded RF connector
21. Ratio of the real power flowing to the load to the apparent power in the circuit (2 wds.)
22. Unit of inductance (pl.)
29. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
30. Chemical symbol for thulium
32. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
33. Amateur radio abbreviation for the Oceania region (abbr.)
34. Automaton
36. Having to do with charged particles
37. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
38. Type of current flow (abbr.)
41. Adjust a pot
42. FCC's Universal Licensing System (abbr.)
46. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)
47. Chemical symbol for cesium
51. European equivalent to the U.L.
52. Chemical symbol for silicon
54. Chemical symbol for radon
55. Chemical symbol for palladium
58. Workplace safety group (abbr.)
60. Units of heat
62. Type of data conversion device (abbr.)
63. Unit of current
64. Precipitate
67. International phonetic alphabet letter "A"
68. U.S. military organization (abbr.)
69. Optical cross-connect (abbr.)
72. Type of logic gate
73. A type of average
74. Stock symbol for Boeing
80. Chemical symbol for bromine
81. Chemical symbol for praseodymium


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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution, 2/5/2012 - RF Cafe