[sdiy] Poor man's EMC testing?

[cheater cheater]

Just a thought, but if you don't have a spectrum analyzer maybe you
can use a digital oscilloscope with capture, and analyze the data in
desktop software. I don't know how that would turn out, though.

D.

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:19, Jay Schwichtenberg <jays at aracnet.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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