Wednesday, May 24, 2006
I was at IWCE last week to give a talk entitled "Managing Interference in the Unlicensed Spectrum". While talking to a guy in one of the booths, he asked what talk I was going to present. When I told him, he just laughed. His opinion was that nothing could be done about interference at 2.4 and 5.8 GHz because there aren't laws governing who can put up a transmitter on those bands. In some places it is like the Wild West - the guy with the biggest signal and antenna wins.
In the talk I proposed that heavily populated areas could do well to establish coordination committees that could help mitigate interference issues. While these bodies wouldn't have the force of law, if there is enough membership they could have the force of peer pressure.
By the way, the talk went well and the questions at the end went far afield from the unlicensed spectrum to things such as how to locate the source of a third order intermoduation source.
One question asked how someone could become a good interference troubleshooter. As a result of that question, I intend to develop a course to teach either as a teleclass or by e-mail on how to find and mitigate interference. In the long-term plan for RFIwizard I intend to also have live events where experts in different RFI and EMC areas would teach their methods and we could have hands-on classes. Sounds like fun to me!
Steve
In the talk I proposed that heavily populated areas could do well to establish coordination committees that could help mitigate interference issues. While these bodies wouldn't have the force of law, if there is enough membership they could have the force of peer pressure.
By the way, the talk went well and the questions at the end went far afield from the unlicensed spectrum to things such as how to locate the source of a third order intermoduation source.
One question asked how someone could become a good interference troubleshooter. As a result of that question, I intend to develop a course to teach either as a teleclass or by e-mail on how to find and mitigate interference. In the long-term plan for RFIwizard I intend to also have live events where experts in different RFI and EMC areas would teach their methods and we could have hands-on classes. Sounds like fun to me!
Steve
