RF & Microwave Crossword Puzzle
April 21, 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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RF & Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for April 21, 2013 - RF Cafe


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1. Opposites of outputs
3. 3-D geometrical figure that is symmetrical about each of three perpendicular axes, and has circular sections along one axis and elliptical sections along the others (pl.)
10. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
11. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
13. Stock symbol for Skyworks Solutions
14. Chemical symbol for xenon
15. Cell phone manufacturer
19. Type of wire used to wind baluns and couplers
23. Type of capacitor dielectric
25. Junction between two different metals that produces a voltage related to a temperature difference (pl.)
28. Part of a male connector
29. Type of data storage IC (pl.)
30. Programmable Logic Device (abbr.)
32. Chemical symbol for lithium
33. Country of RF Cafe's residency
34. A trigonometry function that is the reciprocal of the cosine
40. Type of chart
41. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
42. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
43. Mr. Land's instant photo camera
45. Ratio of circumference to diameter
46. Exponent that returns the original number
48. Plural of locus
49. Unit of frequency (archaic, abbr.)
50. Related to FM by a differential
51. Pure carrier (abbr.)
52. European equivalent to the U.L.
54. Galilean moon
55. Curly-Q type light bulb (abbr.)
57. Morse Code for "from"
58. Filter type with maximally flat group delay (pl.)
60. Opposite of I.D.
62. Resistive component of a capacitor's lumped element model (abbr.)
63. One port of an amplifier
64. Chemical symbol for silver
65. Related to FM by a differential
66. Chemical symbol for mendelevium
67. 1e-6 mA
68. Length times width
70. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)
72. Chemical symbol for beryllium
73. Doping ions inserted into a semiconductor lattice
77. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
79. 1.602E-19 Joules
80. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)
82. The tip of a PCB probe (pl.)
83. Part of a male connector
84. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)
85. Once around a circuit
86. International phonetic alphabet letter "P"
87. User Datagram Protocol
89. Circuit theorem stating that the effects of multiple individual sources may be summed to yield overall response
96. Impenetrable physical barrier
98. Switch configuration (abbr.)
99. The "E" in BER
100. Chemical symbol for europium
102. Receiver power level circuitry (abbr.)
104. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor
105. Morse Code for "from"
106. Machine for sorting out the constituents of a substance
107. Satellite EHF Communications for Mobile Multimedia
1. O-scope, spectrum analyzer, DMM or thermometer
2. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
4. Network department (abbr.)
5. Modulation technique that varies the width of pulses in a train (abbr.)
6. Propagation by means of ionospheric reflection
7. Test equipment that provides a time-domain signal display (pl.)
8. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
9. Created an impenetrable physical barrier
11. Radio Amateurs of Canada (abbr.)
12. Arithmetic Logic Unit (abbr.)
15. Electric enclosure standard organization (abbr.)
16. Type of logic gate (pl.)
17. Unit of length (abbr.)
18. Galilean moon
20. Internet protocol (abbr.)
21. Chemical symbol for thallium
22. Antenna type derived from simple weighted wires dropped from Zeppelin airships
24. Negatively charged ion
26. Type of cryptographic algorithm that takes a string and converts it to a numeric code
27. Describes when a synchronous motor has lost "lock"
31. Smaller moon of Mars
34. System On Chip
35. Voltage-current phase mnemonic
36. Chemical symbol for calcium
37. Chemical symbol for argon
38. Chemical symbol for nobelium
39. Chronological information added to data sample (2 wds.)
43. Signal splitter providing an impedance-controlled single input port and multiple output ports (pl., 2 wds.)
44. Type of current
47. End of Life (abbr.)
48. Smartphone display (abbr., pl.)
52. Units of luminosity
53. Chemical symbol for europium
56. Frequency division multiple access (abbr.)
58. Part of a gyroscope that facilitates free movement of the reference sphere
59. A common battery cell size
61. Frequency at which XL = XC (pl.)
62. Effective Radiated Power (abbr.)
67. Chemical symbol for nickel
68. Antenna (abbr.)
69. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
71. Constellation : The whale
74. Chemical symbol for polonium
75. Chemical symbol for lithium
76. Army-Navy specification prefix
77. High power density battery chemistry (abbr.)
78. Astronomical distance of 3.26 light years
81. The "brains" of parallel processing computers
83. Set of poles
86. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)
88. Meet all test requirements
90. Min-to-max voltage of a waveform (abbr.)
91. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
92. Stock symbol for Raytheon
93. Original Equipment Manufacturer (abbr.)
94. Chemical symbol for strontium
95. Infrared (abbr.)
97. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)
101. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
103. Band between RF and BB
105. Decimeter (abbr.)

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RF & Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for April 21, 2013 - RF Cafe