Re: Electronic equipment on commercial flights

2006-03-04 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
If we are talking about something the size of a laptop shutting down engines or yielding bad fuel quantity readings, we are talking about a high power microwave device, and not rfi. A noisy laptop or other battery-powered handheld device will only interfere with aircraft antenna-connected COMM or

China RoHS Law in English

2006-03-04 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Dear Group Members: An English version of the China RoHS law promulgated February 28, 2006 is available at http://www.graspllc.com/China%20RoHS.php. There are four chapters and 27 articles for this law. Definition for the 'electronic information products' can be found under Article 3.

Re: Fw: Electronic equipment on commercial flights

2006-03-04 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Good points! Just how much damage can an intelligent terrorist do with an modified (very energetic) laptop? Anything short of shutting off the engines would seem to be something that the pilot can over ride manually. Or, show fuel when none exists. - Robert - On Fri, 3

Tribute to Andy Hish

2006-03-04 Thread emc-p...@ieee.org
Hi All, Andy Hish passed away this last week. He was a true pioneer in the fields of high frequency measurement, EMC, and ESD. I have posted a podcast tribute to him on my podcast site at http://emcesd-podcast.com . The audio stream is the latest one dated March 4, 2006. Right click to save