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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.

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.

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.

We are all aware of TVs and radios being affected by vacuum cleaners, food mixers, mobile phones, and the like...

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...

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?

302.  Early colour TV interference from early police radio handset, warns criminals About the time...

We are proud to carry on the tradition of sharing Banana Skins for the purpose of promoting education for EMI/EMC engineers.

Numbers 291 - 294 are taken from the Appendix to MIL-STD-464A dated 18 March...

The regular “Banana Skins” column was published in the EMC Journal, starting in January 1998.