[sdiy] Poor man's EMC testing?

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

I had to do some of this stuff mid-90s. One thing we did was we went in and
got CE certification and not FCC. At the time CE was more stringent than FCC
so if you made it past that you got FCC for free. Might be something to look
into.

We'd do our initial work in a chamber and once we passed that we'd do the
open field testing. It literally was open field testing. They had tents set
up in a gully in the mountains to avoid stray EMI. Still they'd have to run
a test multiple times if there was a cell phone operational on the main
road. The techs could tell real easy if it was a cell phone or our equipment
by the frequency of the signal.

As mentioned finding someone that has the equipment and knows how to use it
would be the cheapest way of doing a preliminary test.

Good luck
Jay S.