My two cents worth.... A brief announcement (perhaps on where to obtain more details) on upcoming seminars (whether or not for $) is a service to those who need the exposure/training. Such "advertising" to members of our community helps lower the cost of those seminars to us (the recipients).
Improvement of the skills and understanding of our participating community earns respect and reflects well on the entire community. Those members who trust only in the techniques they have personally witnessed are perhaps only "cut and try" artists. Hence, we all should stay on the trail of continually acquiring updated knowledge and new analysis techniques that will benefit our futures. As a practical matter, "basic" EMC material must be presented in seminars to assure the group follows the rationale of more advanced techniques that are generally presented in the latter portions of the seminar. Otherwise, you lose the audience. The demonstration of the many techniques normally presented in an EMC seminar would double or triple the presentation time and cost for the effort. Nevertheless, a sound (convincing) basis for offered techniques should be a prerequisite for inclusion in a seminar. Since the clients for whom many techniques (particularly new, little-known ones) proved beneficial in time-to- market and/or superior performance prefer to keep them CONFIDENTIAL, a professional consultant cannot disclose all the performance details without risking legal action and perhaps his/her future career. The alternate (i.e., reconstructing the techniques on a "sanitized" test item) is prohibitively expensive. My comments come from having prepared and given many seminars (for $) over the last eight years. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and solving the really tough EMI problems. And, I earn good money doing so. HOWEVER, I have made virtually no money on just giving seminars alone. Hope these thoughts didn't bore you... Mike Conn Owner/Principal Consultant Mikon Consulting
