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Impact of MRAs on the Electronics Industry

This article is an update of a previous piece that was published in the In Compliance Magazine Reality Engineering column in March 2015. At the time, the FCC Rules (FCC 14-208) had been issued but not adopted i... Read More...

Dark Matters

On a recent visit to Beijing I picked up a copy of the China Daily, the national English Language newspaper. The December 18 issue carried a front-page headline story about a recent Chinese satellite launch. Th... Read More...

VCCI Celebrates 30 Years of EMC and Technology Success

Back in my novice days, computers puttered along at 4.77 MHz and we rarely measured emissions above 200 MHz on the OATS. World trade in electronics was around $1B and cars got, on average, around 25 miles per g... Read More...

Highlights from the TCB Training: The Origins of SAR

The measurement of Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is arguably the most complex of compliance issues, affecting thousands of new device models and billions of radio transmitters.

Present at the Creation

Gazing heavenward is as old as our eyeballs in their orbits. We look and we ask: “why things are?” This is the enduring question, perhaps dating as far back as Homo Naledi, a recently-discovered species and and... Read More...

Where is all of this Wireless Stuff Coming From?

Walking out the door on any given weekday, heading to work, means making sure my collection of radios is either on my person or in my backpack. Let’s see, phone (four radios in there), laptop (two radios), tabl... Read More...

More Changes Coming for FCC Rules

Well There They Go Again… The FCC tossed out another Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) recently (published August 6, 2015) to adjust its Certification Rules for RF products. The Commission recognizes, with ... Read More...

A Far East Wave

It’s normal to have a few regrets and I have more than the crooner would mention. One of the regrets I’ll never have is jumping into the action in China some 15 years ago. It has been a never-ending throb of ac... Read More...

Happy Birthday, National Broadband Plan!

Blow out the candles, already! The recent auction of Advanced Wireless Spectrum raised $41 Big Ones (that’s $41E9) for the US Treasury. Now, spectrum is a little like real estate and as Will Rogers once said: “... Read More...

On Sorghum, Poisson Clumping and Meatloaf

This month’s Reality Engineering takes a stab at circumstance. As engineers we are creatures of prediction and expected outcomes. Sometimes things happen that occur outside the norm. What’s in a Grain? Consi... Read More...