Kris, As someone who just submitted a few products with THREE radios on different bands - they do need to be transmitting simultaneously during SAR testing if this is a possible use of the product - at least for the FCC SAR review. I think for many other countries, you can do the SAR independently, but since we have to do it for the FCC anyway, we do it for everyone.
The only exception here is Bluetooth, which if you are running class II (appx 2-3 mW) should not be *required* to be active for FCC SAR, but it's good practice to have it running anyway (at least for SAR). We enabled it. Note that this is all assuming that you don't have a "fixed" or "mobile" device (as defined by the FCC) and can't just use MPE calculations, in which case you could just use a sum. Best Regards, -Dave Heald From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carpentier Kristiaan Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:49 AM To: EMC-PSTC List Subject: EMF testing multiple radios Hi group, A product contains multiple radio's at the same and/or different frequencies (ex. WLAN & Bluetooth (2.4GHz) & WLAN 5GHz. Do all radios have to be activated (transmitting) simultaneously to measure EMF, SAR at once or shall each radio be tested individually? Is this maybe country dependent? Best regards, Kris Carpentier Regulatory & Approvals - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for computer viruses. ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for computer viruses. - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
