Rocky Mountain Chapter EMC Society

Our last meeting was...

RADIATED EMISSIONS AND IMMUNITY TESTING:
TEM CELLS TO ANECHOIC CHAMBERS

Date : April 27th 2000

Location: Holiday Inn, Northglenn Colorado.

Presenter: Tony O'Hara, Lartec Marketing. [ for Mr. Joseph Heins, Schaffner]

What we saw:  The presentation detailed current commercial, telecom and automotive radiated emissions and immunity requirements. The TEM Cell, GTEM Cell and anechoic chamber measurement environments with test equipment characteristics were defined including benefits and shortcomings. Specific attentionwas offered for EUT and associated cable configuration, typical setups, industry standard practices and pre-compliance versus compliance. The presentation concludes with an overview of conducted susceptibility per EN61000-4-6. The conducted methodology is discussed for both compliance to the standard and pre-compliance for radiated fields up to 1GHz.

The presentation is available for download here.

What we also saw: Jim West, President of the Denver IEEE Section, visited our meeting and gave our group a short summary of IEEE activities. He talked to the group about the sections activities with respect to email list, pre-college, senior membership, college speakers etc.

Thank You. The officers of the RMC EMC Society would like to thank Tony O'Hara for fielding this presentation for Joe Heins. Thanks Tony!!

The officers would also like to thank Schaffner for their sponsorship of this meeting.


IEEE EMC Society Membership

The Rocky Mountain Chapter is open to members and affiliates of the IEEE EMC Society. If you are not a member of the EMC Society, we encourage you to join. The free probe at the February meeting is just one of many benefits for Society members this year. We will have applications available at the meeting, or you can apply on-line at http://www.ieee.org.