EMC Chapter Technical Meeting

Date: Thursday January 21, 2010 – 5:30 p.m.
Location: ADTRAN Inc., East Tower 2nd Floor, Conference Center Room #273
Speaker: Mr. Alan Flack, EMC Compliance
Meal Sponsor: Mr. Ken Javor, EMC Compliance
“Sunday Dinner with Pot Roast and Vegetables”

The Huntsville chapter of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society invites you to attend a technical meeting on January 21, 2010. The program will begin at 5:30 pm with Mr. Ken Javor of EMC Compliance sponsoring a free catered meal. Mr. Alan Flack’s presentation will begin at approximately 6:20 pm after a short chapter status update, and will last approximately one hour.

Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying that if he had eight hours to chop down a tree, he would spend six of those hours sharpening his axe. This presentation is about replacing the axe with a chainsaw. Spectrum analyzer surveys of platform (aircraft, ground vehicles, ships) antennas are the ultimate check that RFI has been properly controlled. As envisioned in MIL-STD-464, an analyzer is connected to a platform antenna and the antenna band is swept, looking for RFI signals. This technique fails when the antenna must be tuned for each frequency of operation. In the past, this was only the case for HF, but today multi-band antennas covering 30-512 MHz are also tunable. The presenters have developed a hardware solution that allows broadband sweeping of a tuned antenna from 2 – 512 MHz (COMM Bands: HF, VHF-FM, VHF-AM, and UHF-AM) without tuning.

This event is open to anyone interested in EMC.  IEEE membership is not required to attend.  However, seating is limited, so please RSVP to Paul Stover by close of business on January 19, 2010 with your intent to attend and if you will be joining us for the meal.

Links: IEEE EMC Society, IEEE Huntsville EMC Society

I hope to see you there!