Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle
May 25, 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.
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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle for May 25, 2014 - RF Cafe

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1. Apply (as a voltage)
8. Next best thing to a bearing
14. A processed or unprocessed semiconductor substrate
15. Greek letter
17. _____-wise linear
19. O3
22. Radio Direction Finding (abbr.)
24. Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (abbr.)
25. Fuse metals together using heat
26. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)
28. Shorthand for oxygen
29. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)
30. Aircraft navigation system (abbr.)
31. 1/6 inch printer's measure
33. 300 kHz to 3 MHz
34. Prefix meaning temperature-related
37. Electrically Alterable Read Only Memory
39. Morse Code for "from"
41. Sets of poles
42. Chemical symbol for plutonium
43. A 3rd-order polynomial (pl.)
44. Strong cable coverings
45. International phonetic alphabet letter "I"
46. Chemical symbol for scandium
48. Regarding light
50. Device used to make contact with a point to be measured
53. Local Oscillator (abbr.)
54. Chemical symbol for thulium
55. Official Space Shuttle designation (abbr.)
56. Chemical symbol for tin
58. Chemical symbol for iron
59. Angular speed unit
60. One port of an amplifier
61. Engineering Change Order (abbr.)
63. Add two or more inputs
66. Cooling device
68. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
69. Coordinated Universal Time (abbr.)
71. Half of a DIP
73. Infrared (abbr.)
74. Communications classification (mobile phones, etc.)
75. Nickname for the Fermi National Accelerator laboratory
2. Microwaves & RF magazine (abbr.)
3. Last stage in a transmitter (abbr.)
4. Web's most popular RF site (2 ltrs. + 1 wd.)
5. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
6. Chemical symbol for strontium
7. Light-sensitive semiconductor
9. One type of electron spin
10. Chemical symbol for silicon
11. First lines in software that call external libraries
12. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)
13. Apollo 11 astronaut ____ Armstrong
15. Return-to-Zero (abbr.)
16. Switch position
18. Transmits a signal
19. Type of logic gate
20. Modern battlefield technique (abbr.)
21. Method other than ion implantation to drive dopants into base semiconductor (pl.)
23. Ham abbreviation for "distant station"
27. Type of component package (abbr.)
29. Unit of inductance (abbr.)
32. Chemical symbol for molybdenum
35. Flip-flop control input (pl.)
36. Science of light transmission
37. ______ velocity - speed necessary to become free of the Earth's gravitational force
38. A vector quantity (typically a complex number) representing a sinusoidally varying current or voltage
40. Chemical symbol for europium
42. Chemical symbol for praseodymium
47. Centimeter (abbr.)
48. International phonetic alphabet letter "O"
49. Permeability-tuned oscillator (abbr.)
51. Filter type (abbr.)
52. Computer messaging service
53. Chemical symbol for lithium
57. Unit of time (abbr.)
58. Type of modulation (abbr.)
61. Voltage-current phase mnemonic
62. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)
64. Unit of time (abbr.)
65. Type of digital filter (abbr.)
67. Gun safety and education organization (abbr.)
69. Electrical safety organization (abbr.)
70. Chemical symbol for cesium
71. Chemical symbol for selenium
72. Related to FM by a differential

 

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Wireless Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for May 25, 2014 - RF Cafe