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Relocation of Thousands of Residents from Radio Telescope Site

 

Global Times reports a plan to relocate of thousands of people away from the site of the world's largest radio telescope in Southwest China's Guizhou Province said a source in charge of the project. Around 9,100 people from 2,029 families living within 5 kilometers of the radio telescope will be relocated by the end of September, reported the Xinhua News Agency. "The telescope … [Read more...]

How To Achieve FCC Compliance in Six Steps

 

MET Labs explains how to achieve FCC compliance in six steps in their recent blog posting. They first explain about the need for EMC compliance and the various routes to compliance in the U.S. - verification, declaration of conformity, and certification. The six steps are outlined below: • Step 1 - select radio frequency and design equipment • Step 2 - test during … [Read more...]

New Extruded EMI Gaskets Announced

 

Nolato Silkonteknik announced their new Compashield® EE gaskets that provides both excellent EMI shielding performance and environmental sealing function in flange-and-groove mounting applications, and for that reason they have attracted lots of interest from customers who are concerned about saving space. Their extrusion process involves gaskets of electrically-conductive … [Read more...]

Has The EMC Directive Achieved What It Set Out To Do?

 

NewElectronics (UK) has written a white paper on the EMC Directive - its history, the new legislative framework and how it affected the Directive, how well it’s being enforced, and market surveillance. The EMC Directive is all about electrical interference – both emissions and immunity. As test house TUV puts it ‘Do not disturb. Do not be disturbed’. When enacted in 1989, the … [Read more...]

Foundation Stone for Indian Society Laid

 

Senior director, Department of Electronics and IT, Government of India, BM Baveja said that Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad would lay a foundation stone for the SAMEER (Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research) Visakhapatnam Centre at Port Kalavani auditorium on February 18. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu … [Read more...]

EMC Directive 2014/30/EU Becomes Mandatory April 2016

 

Elite Electronic Engineering highlights some of the changes between the current EMC Directive 2004/30/EC and the new EMC Directive 2014/30/EU in a white paper published October 14, 2014. It’s time for manufacturers, importers, and distributors to adapt their CE Marking conformity assessment processes to the new directive by April 2016. The new directive will be required for … [Read more...]

Additional Shielding Technology on New Smartphone

 

Korea IT News reports that Apple is applying a shielding technology that blocks EMI in the iPhone 7. It is a measure to increase performance while decreasing electromagnetic interference to major chips and to solve people's fear on electromagnetic waves from smartphones. The shielding is being applied to variety of digital chips, radio frequency (RF) connectivity (wireless … [Read more...]

New Beryllium Copper Gasket Capabilities Announced

 

Tech-Etch, an industry leader in the etching, forming, heat treating and finishing of beryllium copper, has announced a full range of custom gasket capabilities. The mechanical and electrical properties of beryllium copper make it the material of choice for EMI/RFI shielding products, as well as battery contacts, grounding clips, connector contacts, and ESD clips. It … [Read more...]

A2LA and ANSI Recognized by NIST to Accredit Notified Bodies

 

A2LA and ANSI (American National Standards Institute) have been formally recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as an Accreditation Body offering Notified Body (NB) accreditation under ISO/IEC 17020:2012, ISO/IEC 17025:2005, and ISO/IEC 17065:2012. Currently, A2LA is the only accreditation body recognized by NIST to offer accreditation to all … [Read more...]

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