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Thu, 29 Oct 2009, "Kunde, Brian" <[email protected]> writes:

>Simple question, where does the 1V/m, 3V/m and 10V/m test levels come 
>from in the Radiated Immunity standards such as IEC/EN61000-4-3?  Is 
>there some real-world rf source that correlates to these levels? 

Any value of field strength (below the breakdown value for air) occurs 
somewhere! As with many numbers in EMC standards, these have been found 
in practice to reduce the number of complaints to an acceptable minimum.

If they don't, the numbers are changed until they do.
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