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“LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING...” THE FUTURE OF THE RF SPECTRUM Part 1

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The recent series of posts dealing, in part, with the future of the Amateur Radio Service launched the Curmudgeon’s thinking into a new direction. Being a “philosopher dude” kind of guy whose thoughts tend to move toward larger and more futuristic issues, the Curmudgeon generalized his thinking to consider the future prospects for the entire [...]

400% Increase in Daytime Power for AM Stations?

Power line transmission towers may affect AM station coverage

Engineering consultant Richard Arsenault says the biggest problem for AM reception during the daytime “is no longer interference between stations”, as it was when the AM service was established decades ago. The former station owner and consulting engineer says the threat is now “interference from electronic devices and power lines”, and it’s steadily getting worse.  [...]

How RF Interference Impacts the Wireless Network

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Cisco recently performed an on-line survey about RF interference and Wi-Fi network usage with 600 participants from industries such as  agriculture, education, arts, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and many others. 78% of companies now consider all or part of their wireless network to be mission critical. 54% of companies indicated that RF interference causes wireless network [...]

Dancing to an RF Tune

At the production test facilities of a major circuit fabricator, it was dance time – all the time! This company fabricated garage door openers by the thousands, and put them through their paces on a neat row of test positions. The problem was, one tester would open his “door”, and his neighbor’s “door” would go [...]

EMFaracages® Now Feature Fiber Optics

FC-10 EMFaracage® showing associated fiber optic communication appliances.

LBA now offers users the convenience of USB and Ethernet access to systems under test in its popular EMFaracage® electromagnetic shielded chambers. Fiber optic signal isolation requires no compromise to the faraday cage isolation, or to the data stream. The picture shows an FC-10 lab top RF shielded chamber equipped with a wide bandwidth fiber [...]

LBA Technology Forms Test Equipment Group – Expands RF market focus

LBA Technology has restructured its operations to include a new Test Equipment Group. The new group will take responsibility for existing test products manufactured or sold by LBA. It is also in the process of activating major new third party test equipment distribution agreements under the Group. According to Jerry Brown, President of LBA Technology, [...]

Radio Waves and Medicine: Cure or Witches Brew? Part 3

There are several proactive steps to coping with external RF interference that start with selection of the facility design. An RF survey of a new location or problematical facility is a first step. An LBA NARTE Certified Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer will visit the location and inventory potential on and off site RF interference sources. He [...]