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Dave, You mention how people don't like antennas...
When we first brought in our Bi-Log antenna, we had it set up in the open lab space on a tripod. It stayed there fro a week or so. At one point I had one of the ladies in the purchasing department ask me, in all seriousness, "Will this thing give me cancer?" To me this is an indicator of how large the task of educating the public is. Or possibly, how we can take advantage... -doug From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 8:07 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: RF career question Perhaps the EMC community could use some PR. Contact the media (like NPR) with an interesting story to educate the public about RF and such. Maybe do it in conjunction with the ARRL. To most people RF is "magic". And they don't like antennas- the push is to make them invisible but work better than before. I find this a fun challenge but there is a limit to this. I noticed the other day that they were talking up BPL on the radio like it is the best thing in the world. They mentioned that it could make the HF band useless and that hams were opposed to it but that didn't seem to faze the computer geek. Dave Cuthbert Micron TechnologyTitle: RE: RF career question
Dave,
You mention how people don't like antennas...
When we first brought in our Bi-Log antenna, we had it set up in the
open lab space on a tripod. It stayed there fro a week or so. At one
point I had one of the ladies in the purchasing department ask me, in
all seriousness, "Will this thing give me cancer?"
To me this is an indicator of how large the task of educating the public
is. Or possibly, how we can take advantage...
-doug
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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 8:07 AM
To: [email protected]; [email protected];
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Subject: RE: RF career question
Perhaps the EMC community could use some PR. Contact the media (like
NPR) with an interesting story to educate the public about RF and such.
Maybe do it in conjunction with the ARRL. To most people RF is "magic".
And they don't like antennas- the push is to make them invisible but
work better than before. I find this a fun challenge but there is a
limit to this.
I noticed the other day that they were talking up BPL on the radio like
it is the best thing in the world. They mentioned that it could make the
HF band useless and that hams were opposed to it but that didn't seem to
faze the computer geek.
Dave Cuthbert
Micron Technology
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