Re: Emitters Within a CO

2001-08-20 Thread Eric Petitpierre
Dave Heald Wrote: Regardless, every piece of CO equipment (at least owned by the RBOC) should be immune to 9.8 or so V/m signals and any exceptions should be known by the CO administrators as such information is included in a NEBS report (Immunity to 10V/m is a conditional requirement only - I

Re: Emitters Within a CO

2001-08-08 Thread Cortland Richmond
You need to keep fields below the NEBS immunity limits, which are pretty low, IMHO. However, a 300 mW cellphone is not the same danger as a 5 watt high-band HT. Cortland --- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee

Re: Emitters Within a CO

2001-08-08 Thread Eric Petitpierre
Ed, I don't know of any approved cell phones that can be used within a cental office. It seems like it would be up to each central office/telco to make that decision. As far as field strength from cell phones, 5 to 10 V/m is what I have also heard As you may know, GR-1089 has an RF immunity

Emitters Within a CO

2001-08-07 Thread Price, Ed
A few days ago, I got a little involved in a Usenet discussion about a contractor using his cell phone within a Telco CO while working on equipment repairs / upgrades. My position was that I didn't think this was a good idea, since I know that a cell phone will create about 5 to 10 V/M at about 2