Well, yes. Not surprising. German terminology is quite exact. Ken Javor Phone: (256) 650-5261
> From: <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:04:48 -0000 > To: <[email protected]> > Conversation: EMI Receivers > Subject: RE: EMI Receivers > > There is something I do not understand about this discussion. > > An instrument, IMHO, should not primarily named by its application. > In this case, I would call it a test receiver, not an EMI receiver (not good) > or EMC receiver (even worse). > > The same test receiver can be used to measure EMI, but also to measure > properties of an RF transmitter. > > The German term 'Meßempfänger', which means literally measuring receiver coins > this quite nicely. > > Best regards, > Michael Nagel > > Michael Nagel > Senior Staff EMC Test Engineer > Embedded Computing > > Emerson Network Power > T +49-89-9608-0 > F +49-89-9608-2376 > [email protected] > www.emersonnetworkpower.com/embeddedcomputing > > Emerson Network Power - Embedded Computing GmbH, > Lilienthalstr. 15, D-85579 Neubiberg/Landkreis München, Deutschland / Germany. > Geschäftsführer Josef Wenzl, Amtsgericht München HRB 171431, VAT/USt.-ID: DE > 127472241 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Javor > Sent: Freitag, 28. November 2008 23:58 > To: [email protected]; John Woodgate; Untitled > Subject: Re: EMI Receivers > > Your point being? It's an important topic. And sound advice was provided > concerning EMI receivers and pre-selectors before segueing into why "EMC > receiver" is bad terminology. > > Ken Javor > > Phone: (256) 650-5261 > > >> From: Pryor McGinnis <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:53:50 -0800 (PST) >> To: John Woodgate <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Ken >> Javor <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: EMI Receivers >> >> Is this not getting far afield from the original topic? >> >> >> --- On Fri, 11/28/08, John Woodgate <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> From: John Woodgate <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: EMI Receivers >>> To: [email protected] >>> Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 2:13 PM In message >>> <c55593df.324c0%[email protected]>, dated Fri, 28 Nov 2008, >>> Ken Javor <[email protected]> >>> writes: >>> >>> >>>> This paragraph also shows the corrosive influence of >>> poor terminology. >>>> In fact, getting this from Mr. Woodgate, the >>> pre-eminent sage of this >>>> very large forum - stated with the utmost respect - in >>> my mind confirms >>>> the very real hypothesis of one of Mr. Woodgate's >>> compatriots, the >>>> late, great George Orwell. In "1984," Orwell >>> develops the concept of >>>> "Newspeak," a careful reconstruction of >>> language to either eliminate >>>> undesirable concepts, or change their meanings. The >>> idea being that if >>>> you control and change the language, you control and >>> change how people >>>> think. The above paragraph quoted from Mr. >>> Woodgate's post appears to >>>> validate the idea of Newspeak. >>> >>> Please understand that I did not write the original Minute that I >>> quoted. And I would call it 'Minute-speak' rather than 'Newspeak'. >>> >>> Apart from some new words, at least one of which, 'thoughtcrime', was >>> not in any way original in concept, having been invented by some >>> religious zealots around 500 years previously, Newspeak is mainly >>> about imposing an ugly pseudo-mathematical logic on grammar, such as >>> 'double-plus ungood' for 'extremely bad', and this aspect of it >>> really has little literary merit, in my opinion. >>> -- >>> OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk >>> Either we are causing global warming, in which case we may be able to >>> stop it, or natural variation is causing it, and we probably can't >>> stop it. You choose! >>> John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK >>> >>> - >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society >>> emc-pstc discussion list. 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