Engineering Crossword Puzzle
June 23, 2013

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.
2013 Crosswords Archive
Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a break from the drudgery by trying your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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December 15
December 8
December 1
November 24
November 17
November 10
November 3
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October 20
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October 6
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September 8
September 1
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August 11
August 4
July 28
July 21
July 14
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June 23
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June 9
June 2
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May 12
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April 28
April 21
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April 7
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March 17
March 10
March 3
February 24
February 17
February 10
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January 20
January 13
January 6

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for 6/23/2013 - RF Cafe


ACROSS DOWN
1. An amateur station transmitting communications for the purpose of observation of propagation and reception or other related experimental activities (2 wds.)
10. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)
12. Multiplexer (abbr.)
13. Ratio of circumference to diameter
14. Type of logic gate (pl.)
15. Add solder to tip of iron
16. Army-Navy specification prefix
18. L-C resonating circuit
20. Type of distribution, squared
22. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
23. Total radiated power (abbr.)
24. Degrade or destroy performance
26. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices
27. Test equipment (abbr.)
28. Wireless application protocol (abbr.)
29. Chemical symbol for scandium
30. Unit of time (abbr.)
31. BER, 8 bits at a time
32. Chemical symbol for erbium
34. Ham's code for "Does my frequency vary?"
35. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
37. Filter type that blocks frequencies below and above a specified band (abbr.)
38. "Calling any amateur radio station"
39. Chemical symbol for arsenic
41. Type of current flow (abbr.)
42. Beat frequency oscillator (abbr.)
43. 1/6 inch printer's measure
44. Singulated piece of IC wafer
45. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
47. Greek letter
48. Type of e-mail address system (abbr.)
49. Chemical symbol for strontium
50. A common battery cell size
52. Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz ______
56. Specialized mobile radio (abbr.)
57. Chemical symbol for gallium
59. Substrate for mounting components (abbr.)
61. Move from cell to cell
63. Morse Code for "from"
64. High-speed logic family
65. A type of digital modulation (abbr.)
67. Weight (abbr.)
68. Method of sending high-speed digital signals on electric distribution wires, a Ham's nemesis (abbr.)
70. Type of flip-flop
71. Antenna structure that connects directly to the feed line (2 wds.)
1. My last name
2. Modulation type (abbr.)
3. Mr. Piper's famous yellow airplane
4. Shorthand for oxygen
5. Junk e-mail
6. Telecommunications Information Network Architecture (abbr.)
7. Part of a FOR loop
8. International Reply Coupon (abbr.)
9. Workplace safety group (abbr.)
10. End of soldering iron
11. An electrical specification for a motor when it is first started (2 wds.)
17. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)
18. Transformer interwinding connection
19. Mass unit (abbr.)
21. International Microwave Symposium (abbr.)
24. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
25. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)
28. One of the Ws in WWW
30. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
32. Equalizer (abbr.)
33. Its chemical symbol is Rn
36. Gary Breed's fine magazine on RF & microwaves topics (abbr.)
38. Centimeter (abbr.)
40. Half of a DIP
43. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
46. Once around a circuit
48. Spurious RF products created by metal joints (abbr.)
49. Electronic component package type (abbr.)
51. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.)
53. Chemical symbol for lawrencium
54. One type of electron spin
55. The "R" in BER
58. Automatic Calibration System (abbr.)
60. Broadband Signal Intrusion (abbr.)
62. Parts per million (abbr.)
66. Kilovolts (abbr.)
68. Chemical symbol for beryllium
69. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)



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Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for 6/23/2013 - RF Cafe