At long last, Department of Defense Instruction 3222.01, the DoD Electromagnetic Environmental Effects Program, has been signed and released. For those of you following along, its been a long road! See the post from Dec 2013.So, we have a new DoD E3 Instruction…what does that mean? First of all, as the title indicates, it's an Instruction, not a Directive – the difference is … [Read more...]
Abracadabra the Broadband Signals Disappeared
Almost all EMC engineers these days are familiar with MIL-STD-461 and its various revisions because it has influenced the procedures in virtually all present day EMC standards. The original document and the A, B and C revisions all had requirements for measuring both broadband (BB) and narrowband (NB) emissions. When MIL-STD-461 was first released (July 31, 1967), the … [Read more...]