In this issue you will find one practical paper that should be of interest to the EMC community. It is entitled, "Radio-Frequency Metrology from NBS to NIST: The Legacy" by Dennis Friday and was originally presented at the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association Symposium, Denver, Colorado in October 2001. Those of you who do not know much about NIST will find a wealth of information about their history and extensive contributions to electromagnetic metrology. Even those of us like myself who spent a period of time in Boulder will some find some interesting facts of which we were not aware. In the next issue of the Newsletter, we will be publishing a companion paper by several NIST staff members on the specific contributions of NIST to EMC.

Submission of material to the Practical Papers section of the Newsletter is encouraged. While all material will be reviewed prior to acceptance, the criteria are different from those of Transactions papers. Specifically, while it is not necessary that the paper be original or archival, it is necessary that the paper be correct, useful and of interest to readers of the Newsletter.

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