I read in !emc-pstc that Doug McKean <dmck...@auspex.com> wrote (in
<006801c18988$24b4a2a0$3e3e3...@corp.auspex.com>) about 'EMI guard
bands', on Thu, 20 Dec 2001:
>Anywho, the answer I got back from him was that 
>the limits were empirically derived in reference to 
>interfering with television signals.  So, the worst 
>case (which turned out to be Class B) was a tv 
>back to back across a wall from another device 
>in an apartment complex. 

I would be suspicious of that; it is a 'near-field' scenario, which
means that the emission field strengths are complex and impossible to
calculate. The Class B limits are related to a 10 m separation of source
and potential victim, and that implies far-field conditions for
emissions above about 5 MHz.
-- 
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk 
After swimming across the Hellespont, I felt like a Hero. 

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