Ok, you guys got me. I didn't think it's take this long. I confess. The gig's up. I'm the one ...
About 15 years ago in another company far away, I brought a product into a reputable lab to be tested. It "passed", if I remember correctly, by -0.5 dB. The confidence "acid test" back then was (and I'm not joking) "if it can pass with the - worst case configuration - being the monitor on it's side placed on top of the EUT with a topping of cables tied in a bow-tie, then it should pass in any other reasonable configuration." Well, too many people (like me) screamed about these crazy configurations. Now, you can't do that type of cable manipulation/configuration anymore. So, the confidence test had to change. And well it should. How that boss I had to answer to back then thought that every single product would be rock steady at -0.5 dB with no distribution of data was and still is beyond me. We aren't talking about a single car on the highway going the speed limit, we're talking about a whole herd of cars on the highway. The current calculation of error is fairly applied without having to resort to tying everything up into a bow-tie. Doug --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to [email protected] with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected] (the list administrators).
