Radio & Radar Crossword Puzzle
September 21, 2014
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.
2014 Crosswords Archive
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Radio and Radar Crossword Puzzle for September 21, 2014 - RF Cafe

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2. The great circle equidistant from the poles
6. Opposite of transmit
11. Unit of resistance
13. Radio frequency interference (abbr.)
14. Part of this website's title
15. Lines extending out from center
19. Chemical symbol for scandium
20. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
23. Unit of heat
24. Stock symbol for Advanced Micro Devices
26. Peripheral Component Interface (abbr.)
28. Vacuum tube with five elements (not including the heater, pl.)
30. Notch type filter (abbr.)
33. Course headings
35. Government program to bring electricity to farms (abbr.)
36. Bipolar Field-Effect Transistor
38. Spurious RF products created by metal joints (abbr.)
39. Term used in soldering to describe the condition that occurs when the metals being soldered are hot enough to melt the solder so it flows over the surface
40. Type of programmable device (abbr.)
41. The cell band above DCN
42. Cooling device
44. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)
46. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
48. Airflow rate (abbr.)
49. High-speed logic family
50. Stock symbol for National Instruments
52. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
54. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
55. Measure of source/load match
57. FCC Part 15 rules apply in this band (abbr.)
58. High Data Rate
59. The "brains" of parallel processing computers
60. Type of current
62. Chemical symbol for cobalt
63. Increase voltage linearly
65. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)
66. Add two or more inputs
68. Type of memory
69. Type of logic gate
70. International Telecommunications Union
71. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
72. Loose end of a cable
74. Volt, meter, pint, pound, eg.
75. Semiconductor lamp
78. Moves from cell to cell
81. Precision approach radar (abbr.)
83. Part of HEMT
87. Below ELF
88. Plane curve traced out by a point which moves so that its distance from a fixed line is equal to its distance from a fixed point
91. 1/000 of an inch
92. Readability, Signal, and Tone (QoS report type)
94. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
95. Modulation technique (abbr.)
96. 1e3 uV
98. Measured
100. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
101. End of Life (abbr.)
103. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
104. Between-series connector
105. The "E" in ELF		 1. Negatively charged antiparticle of a proton
3. Newly announced name of RFMD and TriQuint merger
4. 300 MHz to 3 GHz
5. Modulation type (abbr.)
7. Chemical symbol for erbium
8. Bands between RF and baseband
9. Power supply vendor in Andover, MA
10. Constellation : The lesser dog (2 wds.)
12. Semiconductor and calculator company (abbr.)
15. A common RS-232 serial bus command (abbr.)
16. Chemical symbol for gold
17. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
18. Miniature RF connector
21. U.K. equivalent of the IEEE
22. Rádio Nacional de Angola (abbr.)
23. Chemical symbol for beryllium
25. Morse Code for "from"
26. Silicon transistor type
27. Common gateway interface (abbr.)
29. Device for translating higher frequencies to lower frequencies
30. Chemical symbol for bismuth
31. Web's most popular radio frequency engineering site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)
32. Chemical symbol for iron
34. Device used to measure change in velocity
36. Filter type that blocks frequencies in a specified band (abbr.)
37. Test point (abbr.)
41. French mathematician Siméon-Denis _______
42. A BPF specification (abbr.)
43. Home state of Los Alamos lab (abbr.)
45. Changes from a "1" to a "0"
47. _____ rule, a 1950s engineer's tool
49. The "E" in BER
51. Unit of current
53. A keyboard key
54. Personal Digital Cellular
56. Unit of typing speed (abbr.)
59. Angle in a right triangle which, when added to the other acute angle, equals 90 degrees
61. Type of inductance found in transformers
64. Wrote software
66. Chemical symbol for silicon
67. Greek letter (micro)
73. Chemical symbol for lawrencium
74. Unit of time (abbr.)
76. Voltage-current phase mnemonic
77. Keyboard key
79. Unix, Linux or Windows (abbr.)
80. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
81. Type of e-mail address system (abbr.)
82. Circuit for maintaining constant voltage (abbr.)
84. Determined temporal distance between events
85. Type of logic gate
86. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor
88. Attenuator
89. Analog-to-Digital (abbr.)
90. Provider of services for telecommunications systems in Switzerland
93. Test equipment (abbr.)
94. European equivalent to the U.L.
97. Voice of America
99. Chemical symbol for einsteinium
100. Current-voltage phase mnemonic
102. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)
103. Chemical symbol for erbium

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Radio and Radar Crossword Puzzle Solution for September 21, 2014 - RF Cafe