Ed, Thanks for addressing the contractual nature of CE106 in particular and MIL-STD-461 in general. You saved me the effort.
EMC Compliance has a set of very old tunable notch filters specifically designed for CE106 measurements by Empire Devices for use with the NF-105. These are two pole filters: a cap and a choke. If you measure the insertion loss curve for these simple devices, that old 5% pretty well covers the frequency range where the insertion loss departs from 0 dB... Ken Javor Phone: (256) 650-5261 From: Ed Price <[email protected]> Organization: ESP Labs Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 12:38:14 -0700 To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [PSES] MIL STD 461E NECESSARY BANDWIDTH Charlie: The USA DoD procurement system uses a detailed contract to legally bind a vendor to a number of conditions, and in the EMC area, the successful performance of MIL-STD-461F is typical. The contract will call out which specific Test Methods (including variations) are applicable, so if CE106 is in the contract, believe me, it is mandatory. True, the early 461 was just taking an educated whack at controlling intentional emissions to nothing more than was reasonable and economical to achieve. There was little justification to why 5% was better than 7%, other than the ancient relationship to half the number of allocated fingers. (BTW, can you imagine a world in which 7 fingers or toes per hand or foot gave rise to a base 14 numerical system?) Lastly, why would you use a different RBW to measure the fundamental versus the spurious emissions? I would think that the only way to accurately measure the peak of a spurious was the same way that you measured the peak of the fundamental. Ed Price El Cajon, CA USA From: Charlie Blackham [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] MIL STD 461E NECESSARY BANDWIDTH ETSI standards typically define ³Spurious Emissions² as being those removed from cF by >250% of the necessary bandwidth. Emissions within this region are typically covered by Spectral Mask and Occupied Bandwidth requirements, both of which are typically measured using much lower RBWs than used for Spurious Emissions so that accurate measurements can be obtained. I¹m might be talking out of my hat now, but when MIL-STD-461 was first written way back when, I¹m sure that they were really only thinking in terms of AM/FM modulation - 40 MHz wide OFDM and 1GHz wide FMCW devices weren¹t probably envisaged. Since, in my experience, CE106 isn¹t actually Mandatory for selling a product, I would do the test in a way that seems reasonable for the operation of your product, document what you¹ve done and why, and discuss/explain to customers as required. You might want to have a look at CEPT/ERC/REC 74-01 and associated documents Regards Charlie From: Mazzola, Santo (US SSA) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 August 2012 00:21 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PSES] MIL STD 461E NECESSARY BANDWIDTH Airy, In MIL-STD-461F they changed the language of the exception, It now reads: The transmit mode portion of this requirement is not applicable within the bandwidth of the EUT transmitted signal or within ±5 percent of the fundamental frequency, whichever is larger. So if the necessary bandwidth is greater then +/- 5% it is still excluded. Speaking in generalities, the necessary bandwidth of whatever kind of transmitter it is, probably has some kind of Spectral mask requirement that is not a MIL-STD-461 requirement. The spurious emissions requirements of CE106 cannot begin until after the necessary bandwidth ends. Hope that helps. Sandy (Santo) Mazzola EMC Engineer BAE Systems Inc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Airy, Chad Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 6:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MIL STD 461E NECESSARY BANDWIDTH Greetings, Greetings to all, this is my first post to the list. My question deals with the Applicability paragraph of CE106. How does one apply the +/-5% non-applicability rule when the necessary bandwidth exceeds 10% of the fundamental frequency by a fair margin? Quoting the standard: ²The transmit mode portion of this requirement is not applicable within the EUT necessary bandwidth and within ±5 percent of the fundamental frequency.² The case I am referring to is real. However, to prevent exposure of proprietary information, I will use a hypothetical example: An airborne synthetic aperture radar having a fixed nominal chirp bandwidth of 1500 MHz at a center frequency of 15 GHz, illuminates a designated area on the ground. 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