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The "table-top" season reached its height the first week in June when three separate EMC chapters held one-day shows. Clayton Paul is shown with EMC Newsletter Editor Janet O'Neil at the San Diego show. Dr. Paul spoke at the Oregon and SW Washington chapter event on June 4 and at the San Diego chapter event on June 8. |
Our last issue of the EMC Society Newsletter was a record breaking 48 pages. It featured considerable contributions to the Chapter Chatter column, three practical papers, coverage of the Zurich and Brugge EMC conferences, an update on the hearing aid/cellular telephone ANSI C63.19 standard, and comments on the IEEE fiscal state of affairs by Division IV Director Peter Staecker. And, of course, our regular feature articles were included as well. All this information generated several letters to the Newsletter from our readers. I'd like to share these letters with you as follows this column and I encourage more readers to communicate with the Newsletter staff. It is always good to hear from you! Note in this issue that Bob Olsen, Associate Editor for Practical Papers specifically requests feedback on the article by Ed Bronaugh which appears on page 20. Please help us gather further information on the history of the Quasi-Peak detector.
In early June, I was fortunate to attend three events sponsored by regional EMC chapters, including Portland, Seattle and San Diego. These events are featured in the Chapter Chatter column starting on page 5. It was great to see the local chapter members out in force for interesting technical programs and exhibits on the latest in EMC related products and services. If your local chapter has not held one of these events yet, feel free to contact me. As the Society's Regional EMC Conference Coordinator, I would be happy to help you and your Chapter organize a one-day event with a technical program and tabletop show.
You may recall that the last issue of the Newsletter was significant in that it marked the final issue containing the Chapter Chatter column by Associate Editor Todd Hubing. (As a result of his column, among other things, one reader contacted me to see if I really had the power to appoint the President of the EMC Society!) We published a call for volunteers to replace Todd in the last issue. Frankly, this did not generate the stampede of volunteers I had expected. Apparently, Todd's skill as a writer was rather intimidating to many people. Our new Associate Editor for Chapter Chatter took a different approach. Rather than submit samples of his writing to rival Todd's, he qualified himself by simply stating that since he has the same name, it's a natural for a Todd to replace a Todd. (I should have known not to open an e-mail with the subject "My Name is Also Todd.") So, quite literally, there you have it! Our new Associate Editor for Chapter Chatter is Todd Robinson of CKC Laboratories, located on Clouds Rest in tiny Mariposa, California. I am sure that in his low-ambient environment he will contribute some quite funny articles in the future. And, I bet they will be submitted on time! (Sorry, Mr. Hubing!) EMC