Banana Skins – August 2021 (#347-353)
Cellular telephones can interfere with medical equipment – Mayo Clinic concludes
Banana Skins – July 2021 (#342-346)
Major news outlets in the Philadelphia metropolitan area report that the head of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) has called on city officials to replace the two-and-a-half year old Motorola police radio system because of repeated communications failures.
Banana Skins – June 2021 (#333-341)
The rear-screen heater in my BMW 3-Series causes so much interference when switched on that it’s impossible to listen to the car radio.
Banana Skins – May 2021 (#330-332)
Chris van Rossman of Corvallis Oregon turned on his do-everything combo TV and got a big surprise—the police, the Civil Air Patrol, and the County Search and Rescue Officers knocked on his door.
Banana Skins – March 2021 (#322-329)
We are all aware of TVs and radios being affected by vacuum cleaners, food mixers, mobile phones, and the like...
Banana Skins – February 2021 (#316-321)
A number of people who had been enjoying weightless activities in the non-spinning central hub of Virgin Space Ltd’s newest hotel “Arthur C Clarke III” found themselves trapped on the ‘ceiling’ for 15 minutes...
Banana Skins – January 2021 (#307-315)
Typically, regular voltage quality spot checks are made throughout a local distribution system with additional measurements taken when a customer asks; is there a voltage problem?
Banana Skins – December 2020 (#302-306)
302. Early colour TV interference from early police radio handset, warns criminals
About the time of the introduction of ‘Panda’ cars in the UK came a new Police hi-tech system known as the Personal Radio... Read More...
Banana Skins – November 2020 (#295-301)
We are proud to carry on the tradition of sharing Banana Skins for the purpose of promoting education for EMI/EMC engineers.
Banana Skins – October 2020 (#291-294)
Numbers 291 - 294 are taken from the Appendix to MIL-STD-464A dated 18 March 1997. (MIL-STD-464A is entitled “Department of Defense — Interface Standard —Electromagnetic Environmental Effects — Requirements for... Read More...