Another interesting UK vacancy
I was reading the news.bbc.uk web page today (again). I followed the link from the Apache helicopters parked in shed due to the lack of pilots story, this led me to Westland Helicopters. They have a vacancy posted for an EMC engineer at the HNC+ some experience level. I wish I could spot jobs in the San Jose bay area as easily. Jim --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on browse and then emc-pstc mailing list
UK Job Posting on Marconi website
I saw yesterday that someone was asking about UK positions. This morning I was reading an article about Marconi at news.bbc.co.uk under the business heading and then followed a link to Marconi. They have a EMC consulting position listed in Coventry, UK. Regards Jim --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on browse and then emc-pstc mailing list
Re: Compliance Primer
Reason I ask is I had these questions posed to me by one of our directors. He wants to learn about compliance. I was caught flat footed. How do you explain what took you 19 years to learn? And that you really don't know as much as you think? I showed him my stack of standards but didn't think that would be a good place for him to start. I have been pondering this, and would like to suggest a different tack. In these times of recession he may be attempting to pick your brains prior to taking some draconian action, so in the same way that a good salesman always guards his rolodex, I would propose that you do the following. 1) Produce nothing in writing, I think that your showing him a huge stack of standards was an excellent place to deflect him. 2) When refering to EMC do so in front of a powered up product and make small circular hand motions when describing magnetic fields and larger hand movements for electric fields. Grasp the product firmly when refering to safety (make sure that your hair style is similar to that of a tv evangilist for optimum effect). 3) Have anecdotal evidence of the repercussions of short cuts (FCC fines for non- marked equipment at trade shows, foreign distributors being imprisoned etc etc). 4) Expand your D of C's for Europe to include every possible directive and standard that may apply (including the ones about straight bananas) get this particular director to sign the D of C's, as he is trying to fathom them, ask him if he has a passport and if he is thinking of a European vacation at any time soon, when he says no reply excellent! very quickly and excitedly. 5) Wear T shirts that reflect 19 plus years of experience (have them made to order and stone washed to age them if needed). T shirts such as Shockley, Bardeen and Bratain, first transistor may be a bit much but. Zilog Z80 or Cromemco S100 bus systems would be apt. 6) At the quarterly manufacturing audit, get the safety agency rep in a really foul mood and then whisk him in to see this director. 7) Seek out the most attractive and unobtainable female in your company and flirt and make passes at her in an outrageous and quirky style. (this last one has no bearing on compliance but if everyone in the regulatory field did this someone would be bound to get lucky and then it would make for an interesting story at an IEEE EMC society meeting). Usual caveats, my words not my employers, tongue in cheek, etc etc Jim
Re: radar
Reminds me of a news article a while back from New Zealand where they also use the roadside automated radar/camera setup (GATSO?) A chap received a fixed penalty ticket in the mail stating that his car had been photographed speeding and that he had to pay a fine. He replied via mail with a photo of a cheque for the fine. The police responded also via mail with a photo of a pair of handcuffs. He paid up. Jim OBTW I thought that the CHP were not allowed radar as the Ca voters elected by ballot that they would not pay taxes to allow the police to buy equipment allowing them to raise more revenue from speeders. Hence only the local police have radars and the CHP have to get behind you or time you over a fixed distance from a spotter plane. Or is that an urban myth? Pettit, Ghery wrote: Does the photo show who was driving the car? Can't say that I would be too happy to be summoned to court when one of my kids (or wife) was speeding.Ghery Pettit -Original Message- From: Nick Rouse [mailto:nickjro...@cs.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:03 PM To: emc Subject: Re: radar I don't know if the technique is used in America but the speed cameras in the UK are triggered by radar but produce evidence by taking two pictures illuminated by two strobe pulses timed about 150ms apart. Stripes are painted across the road spaced so that between flashes a vehicle will traverse one stripe pitch for every 10mph.If the pictures show you have traversed more than 7 stripe pitches (on motorways)you will receive copies of these photos together with a summons to appear in court.Nick Rouse Jim Freeman wrote: Hi All, I apologize for being off subject but I was driving to work and noticed aCalifornia Highway Patrol officer on the opposite of the freeway an about 500 yards away. What brought him to my attention was what appeared to be a strobe light that was flashing. I have been thinking about and I was wondering if the new radar has some ways of taking pictures or if the strobe light really is the radar source. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Jim Freeman Hi All, I apologize for being off subject but I was driving to work and noticed aCalifornia Highway Patrol officer on the opposite of the freeway an about 500 yards away. What brought him to my attention was what appeared to be a strobe light that was flashing. I have been thinking about and I was wondering if the new radar has some ways of taking pictures or if the strobe light really is the radar source. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Jim Freeman
Re: EMC-related safety issues
* A routine flight over Dallas-Fort Worth was disrupted when one of the compasses suddenly shifted 10 degrees to the right. The pilot asked if any passenger was operating an electronic device, and finding that a laptop computer had just been turned on requested that it be turned off, whereupon the compass returned to normal. Following RTCA guidelines the pilot requested that the laptop be turned on again 10 minutes later, when the compass error returned. Ref: Compliance Engineering (European edition) Nov/Dec 1996 p12 * I am fascinated by this amazing story (which must surely be an urban myth) and went in search of more info on the internet. I had never heard of the RTCA ( a private corporation) before, but noticed via their web site that you have to be a member company (i.e. pay) to receive the wisdom that it contains. Aviation is merely a hobby of mine but I'm interested in reading a copy of the RTCA's DO-233/214 and 196 documents without shelling out hundreds for the privilege, can anyone advise? Also does anyone know what recommendations have they made to modifying FAR 91.21 (as per their web site). In reading this again, I'm curious as to how the pilot would have known about a private companies convoluted guideline for fault finding on errant radio direction equipment involving locating industrious passengers and commandeering their computers at 10 minute intervals. Surely he would have done what any professional engineer would do, beat or kick the 10 degree error out of the RDF equipment? Or maybe just wonder to him/herself about how strange things happen in the Dallas Fort Worth area? Tounge in cheek, my comments and not those of my employer etc. Jim
