Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
November 3, 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
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December 15
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December 1
November 24
November 17
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November 3
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October 20
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October 6		 September 29
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September 8
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August 11
August 4
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July 21
July 14
July 7		 June 30
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June 9
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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for November 3, 2013 - RF Cafe 

 
ACROSS DOWN
1. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
5. National Bureau of Standards radio station (time signals)
8. A popular spreadsheet
12. Enhanced Datarates for Global Evolution
13. Electro-mechanical switching device
14. Determined temporal distance between events
15. Type of current flow (abbr.)
17. Chemical symbol for tantalum
19. PC follower
20. Chemical symbol for magnesium
22. Chemical symbol for aluminum
24. Amateur radio enthusiast
26. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
28. Unit of energy
29. Strong cable covering
31. Connector vendor
32. Ham's code for "Shall I increase power?"
33. Chemical symbol for lithium
35. Transmit Incremental Tuning (abbr.)
37. Ratio of circumference to diameter
39. Type of current
40. Chemical symbol for mercury
42. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)
44. Enrico _____, nuclear physicist
45. RMS current times RMS voltage
47. Image file format name extension, (pl.)
48. Chemical symbol for manganese
49. Chemical symbol for argon
50. Filter type that blocks lower frequencies (abbr.)
51. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
53. Exponent that returns the original number
55. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
57. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)
58. Create a power supply output w/o a ground reference
60. Leading and trailing edge frequency variation of a CW pulse
61. BER, 8 bits at a time
62. Chemical symbol for neon
64. Type of logic gate
66. Greek letter (micro)
68. Chemical symbol for ytterbium
69. Ham-ese for Young Lady
71. Part of this website's title
73. Stock symbol for Boeing
74. Type of reconfigurable memory (abbr.)
76. _____-wise linear
78. Internet ____, public venue that provide online access
80. Type of shielded RF cable with two inner conductors
81. Personal Digital Cellular
82. Sets of 5 work days		 1. Small motored tool for model drilling, grinding, shaping, etc.
2. One component of a complex number (abbr.)
3. BlackBerry or Jordana for example (abbr., pl.)
4. Feedback system used to maintain constant level (abbr.)
5. Term used in soldering to achieve the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface
6. Wireless data transfer scheme (abbr.)
7. Unit of apparent power (abbr.)
8. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)
9. An abbreviation for "transmitter"
10. European equivalent to the U.L.
11. He, along with A.A. Michelson, precisely measured the speed of light
16. Layers of a multi-layered PCB
18. Its chemical symbol is Cf
21. Test equipment that causes a meter decrease (dip) when near resonant circuits (3 wds.)
23. Sample group
24. Communication between stations by reflecting the radio waves off of the ionosphere
25. Akin to an EE, CE, AE, etc.
27. An ellipse has two of them
30. Mate to a TX
34. Metal or plastic rod that connects a potentiometer wiper to a knob
36. Type of microwave diode (pl.)
38. Prefix indicating magnetic properties
41. World's first satellite navigation system (abbr.)
43. Unit of length (abbr.)
44. Finite Element Analysis (abbr.)
46. 1/6 inch printer's measure
47. Type of film that refracts light
52. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
53. Unit of resistance
54. Chemical symbol for erbium
56. Path followed by a heavenly body around a star (pl.)
59. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
63. Constellation : The lyre
65. Used logic gates
67. RF ____, the world's best engineering website
70. Shorthand for liquid oxygen
72. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency
73. Bulk Acoustic Wave
75. Ratio of circumference to diameter
77. Internet protocol (abbr.)
79. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
 

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for November 3, 2013 - RF Cafe