RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread O'Shaughnessy, Paul
Vaccum should of course be Vacuum. My typing fingers betrayed me -Original Message- From: O'Shaughnessy, Paul [mailto:paul_oshaughne...@affymetrix.com] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:28 AM To: 'george_t...@dell.com'; brian_ku...@leco.com; emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Subject: RE:

Re:RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread brian_kunde
Wow! Great Responses. So much history I was not aware of. Great analogies too. Thanks to everyone who responded. Brian --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your

RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread O'Shaughnessy, Paul
This question harkens back to the days when it was supposed that there was some ether or etherial material, through which EM waves must propagate. You can still hear people occasionally say that a message arrived through the ether. It was a (logical at the time) extrapolation from sound waves,

RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Andrew Wood
Just a small point about Black Holes. Yes, just a few years ago they were the stuff of science fiction but are now accepted as fact by mainstream science. As a Black Hole is basically a region of very high density, then surely it is the very OPPOSITE of a true vacuum? Andy. -- From:

RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Vince Rodriguez
yes you are right on that, the behavior of the energy with distance depends on the source. Vicente Rodríguez, Ph.D., E.I.T. RF/Electromagnetics Engineer ETS-Lindgren (an ESCO Company) P.O.Box 80589, Austin TX 78708-0589 phone 512.835.4684 x648 fax 512.835.4729 vicente.rodrig...@emctest.com

RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Mike Hopkins
An excellent explanation -- I've seen these issues explained many times, either over simplified or overly detailed. The explanation below is a superb balance. Thanks Michael Hopkins KeyTek -Original Message- From: Nick Rouse [mailto:100626.3...@compuserve.com] Sent: Thursday,

RE: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Maxwell, Chris
Brian, I really liked Nick Rouse's explanation for completeness. I'd like to extract maybe a simplification of the self inducing part. It was explained to me that E-M fields are sourced from charges that accelerate. When charges are stationary or when they are moving with constant velocity,

RE: RTTE Directive DoC Requirements

2000-12-01 Thread Andrea Bishop
You can access most of the TCAM documents through the UK's DTI Technical Advice and Policy Committee (TAPC) RTTE website: http://www.tapc.org.uk/RTTE/Index.html Regards Andrea Bishop BABT Product Service -Original Message- From: Kevin Harris [mailto:harr...@dscltd.com] Sent: 30

DC POWER FILTERING FOR ETS 300 132-2

2000-12-01 Thread chrism
All, We've run across a customer requirement which includes testing to paragraphs 4.9.1 and 4.9.2 of ETS 300 132-2. We've had a problem with this test. I've searched around on and off for a couple of days for a solution. I know that the guys at the lab follow this group, but now I must

Re: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Nick Rouse
RF, meaning radio frequency radiation, is electromagnetic radiation just like light. At the classical level this can be thought of as an electrostatic field that is in a direction that is at right angles to the direction the radiation is propagating. Coupled to this is a magnetic that is at

Re: How does RF travel through outer space?

2000-12-01 Thread Ken Javor
Wasn't going to weigh in on this one, but there are a few inaccuracies here which require correction. No criticism implied, I can't remember where I placed my keys five minutes ago; I will not criticize a lapse of memory over 40 years. Energy or power density from a point source spreading out