Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-25 Thread Cortland Richmond
I spent a number of years working at a firm that made digital loop carrier equipment for the telephone companies, and would occasionally be called to go out to the field and find out why earlier equipment was being interfered with. In Nutley, New Jersey, there is or was a local a.m. station

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-25 Thread Cortland Richmond
OT -- but funny: I was one of those kids who builds a railgun in his bedroom, age 11 or so.  This is later... At the Avionics School in Georgia, 1964, I had a clock radio that stopped working. This was bad because I needed to wake up while there was still hot water in the showers so, when

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Robert Johnson
Another CB radio story. If you remember, the big game was best distance. One operator out in Ohio had attached a linear, a roof antenna with rotor and was talking at quite a distance to someone down in the river valley. With the rotor he could simulate fading and such. He claimed he was

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Ghery Pettit
Your neighbor’s stereo was defective. It isn’t supposed to respond to Chicken Band signals.  73 Ghery, N6TPT From: Scott Douglas <sdouglas...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 7:00 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regardi

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Scott Douglas
Hi Charles, My story is somewhat similar. When I was a young lad living in Wisconsin I got hooked on CB radio (before the Hey Good Buddy craze ruined it). I had a 5 channel Johnson Messenger I with a whole 5 watts output and a 1/4 wave dipole on the garage roof. Not satisfied with talking to

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Pat Lawler
Charles, I remember attending an amateur radio club meeting in the 1970s, and someone brought their new Altair 8080 personal computer - a new device for the tech savvy! His demonstration involved placing an AM radio next to the computer, then toggle-switch programming a long sequence into the

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Pat Lawler
Hi Charles, One Sunday when my dad was young & attending church with his family, he heard a ragged voice came over the church PA (public address) system saying something to the effect of "Car 54, where are you?" Without breaking a beat, the pastor said "That may be the voice of God, but I

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Doug Powell
Charles, Hope you are well. Although not directly about EMC or laboratory practices and the like, take a look into RF lotions, creams and gels not for ultrasound. For example Facial Radiofrequency Gel with anti-aging RF treatment. I can't exactly tell if they are trying to prevent or enhance RF.

Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Nyffenegger, Dave
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Re: [PSES] Neat Funny Stories regarding EMI

2018-03-23 Thread Ken Javor
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2018-03-23 Thread James Pawson (U3C)
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