Stephen Berger of TEM Consulting and Ghery Pettit of Intel joined Newsletter Editor Janet O'Neil (L-R) for dinner prior to the April meeting of the Seattle EMC Chapter. Stephen and Ghery were the meeting speakers who shared a little history on CISPR 22 and ANSI C63 test methods.

I don't know about you, but I've been thinking about history the past few months. Maybe it started as a result of my involvement in IMS 2002 in early June at the Seattle Convention Center. This was the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the IEEE MTT Society. They had a very nice, museum quality display of historical equipment related to the development of microwave theory and techniques in the registration area. In the back of my mind, I was thinking about the upcoming 50th anniversary of our EMC Society in 2007. I know that Dan Hoolihan, Chairman of the 2007 EMCS Anniversary Committee, will be spearheading a history subcommittee that will create a similar display of EMC "antiques" for our anniversary symposium. That will be exciting to see.

I've also been thinking about history as a result of the NIST 100 Year Anniversary article that appeared in our last Newsletter. This article by Dennis Friday prompted Bob Olsen, our Technical Editor, to encourage the EMC folks at NIST to share with our readers their history as specifically related to EMC. The result is the extensive article that appears on page 19 of this Newsletter. I think you will find this article on NIST's history in EMC very interesting. I'd like to thank Chris Holloway and Perry Wilson of NIST, among others, for their tremendous efforts in putting this article, photos and references together. Thanks too to EMCS Photographer Dick Ford for providing some special photos to complement this article.

Lastly, EMCS Treasurer Warren Kesselman recently provided an informal history of this Newsletter as follows:

Janet,
Here's the history of the EMC Society Newsletter. In January 2002, it celebrated its 44th birthday. The following information tracks the name changes through the years.

• Issue #1 dated January 2, 1958 was distributed by The Institute of Radio Engineers, Inc. (IRE), Professional Group on Radio Frequency Interference.
• Issue #25 dated January, 1963 was distributed by The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Professional Group on Radio Frequency Interference.
• Issue #27 dated April, 1963 was distributed by IEEE, Professional Technical Group on Radio Frequency Interference.
• Issue #28 dated July, 1963 was distributed by IEEE, Professional Technical Group on Electromagnetic Compatibility.
• Issue #34 dated August, 1964 was distributed by IEEE, Electromagnetic Compatibility Group.
• Issue #98 dated Summer 1978 was distributed by IEEE, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.

Regards,
Warren

Thanks to EMCS Past President, Ed Bronaugh, an entire set of these Newsletters will be provided for your reading pleasure at the 2007 EMCS Anniversary Symposium. It should be interesting to follow our development in EMC over the years since 1958.

If YOU are interested in history as well, consider participating in the 2007 EMCS Anniversary Committee that will address our EMCS history. Contact Dan Hoolihan at e-mail Hoolihan@citlink.net or phone 651.213.0966. I am sure that Mr. Hoolihan, Chairman of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on EMC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be looking for something to do come September! EMC