All, There will be a sequential or joint Northeast Product Safety Society and EMC Society meeting on Wednesday, September 29, at EMC Corporation's Conference Room 1-2 (Building A, 1st floor) at 228 South Street in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 6:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:00 PM. Our first speaker will be Lee Hill, of SILENT, Amherst NH, presenting an EMC related topic concerning a low cost measurement system and techniques to characterize RF devices. Our product safety topic will be an open forum to discuss four open invitation topics of interest to NPSS and CNEC IEEE PSES members. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as NPSS membership or advanced notice is not required.
Lee Hill is Founding Partner of Silent, an independent consulting firm that specializes in EMC and RF design, troubleshooting and training. Previously Lee was Principal EMC and Systems Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Workstation Systems Engineering Group in Palo Alto, California. Lee received his Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering & Electromagnetics University of Missouri-Rolla, and has eighteen years of experience in the EMC design and retrofit of complex electronic systems. Lee is presently a member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors (2005-2007), Chairman of the IEEE EMC Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Program, and a member of Technical Committee TC-10 on Signal Integrity. Many EMC engineers and technicians have and are familiar with using a spectrum analyzer with tracking generator. This presentation gives a hands-on demonstration of how to create a very sensitive, low cost measurement system for characterizing the performance of RF devices found in most EMC troubleshooting and test laboratories. Lee will use a portable test receiver/spectrum analyzer and tracking generator, together with a dual directional coupler purchased on eBay to demonstrate the usefulness of S11 “return loss” or “reflection loss” measurements. First, the principles of “through” or “insertion loss” measurements will be discussed and demonstrated. Second, the principles of return loss measurements will be discussed and demonstrated. A variety of common EMC test/debug laboratory RF devices such as RF series adapters, attenuators, probes, and antennas will characterized with one or both of the two measurements. The main emphasis of the presentation will be a 50 ohm return loss measurement setup with a best case dynamic range of 40 dB. Four 15 minute product safety open invitation topic discussions will follow Lee’s presentation. 1) Open invitation to members and individual contractors to discuss their experiences, i.e. marketing/sales, technical, setting a company or corporation, taxes, insurance and seek feedback regarding "how can NPSS help members who are individual contractors ? 2) Open invitation to members, recruiters and hiring managers to bring information and meet NPSS members with product safety experience regarding “how can NPSS help members who are between jobs?" 3) Open invitation to vendors to provide feedback on vendor's night. What is NPSS doing right and what need's improvement and seek feedback on how can NPSS help members who are vendors? 4) Open invitation to members for AdCom nominations and suggestions for improving NPSS value to members. The theme being a new NPSS service initiative and what can NPSS do to help all our members today and tomorrow. Further information on our speakers and their presentations will soon be available on the NPSS web site at http://www.nepss.org. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2005 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2005_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the traffic light at the off ramp from Route 495 South as the first traffic light. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). Proceed 1.6 miles on South Street, through the next two traffic lights. Turn right into the third driveway after the second light, marked with sign “228 South Street” Travel 0.2 miles to the end of the driveway and park in the lot. Check in at the Building A main entrance. Conference room 1-2 is to the left of the security front desk. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. 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