Mike Violette

A Wreck of a Story

When I was a kid and found out that my dad was an ‘engineer,’...

The Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers: A Timeless Treatise

This month’s In Compliance Magazine features the 2014 Reference Guide, a compendium of resources...

Wireless Certification in the Land of the Rising Sun

1311 F1 cover The first broadcasting station in Japan went on-air in 1925, a scant five years after the first radio station went live in the United States. A year later, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) was chartered by the Japanese government and is still the official public broadcast entity. The build-out of NHK’s network into the Pacific was extensive in the 1930s and during the early years of WWII and followed the expansion of Japan’s imperial armed forces across the Pacific.

Frying the Flight Data Recorder: How Not to Impress

In this month’s In Compliance Magazine the focus is on military and aerospace topics....

A Jungle Survival Story

Long before EMC was his interest and, I daresay, his passion, Dad flew airplanes...

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The Ringing Rocket

Gimbals & Gimballing Ships’ compasses are mounted on gimbals, fixtures that allow the needle to...

Timbuktu (or Bust)

Bamako, a tattered town on the Niger River, is the home of the US...

The Scale of Shaky Things

We examine the size of things that move and shake, from the whisper of a lover to the crunch of tectonics. Barely audible, a whisper at the threshold of human hearing produces a “zero dB” sound pressure level (SPL), according to convention.