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#714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe

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Welcome Martin Rowe of EE World!

  • Martin is a long time journalist in the electronics space, having worked at magazines like EDN, Test and Measurement World, EE World, and more!
  • Ken Wyatt
  • Concentrated vs diffuse information
  • Product reviews
  • Unitrend scope videod
  • Tek 5 series B
  • Wirecutter for test equipment / parts
  • Skepticism
  • Webinars – 3 levels
  • Martin has an HP34401 early model
  • Touring T&M companies
  • Littelfuse
  • Martin is in the Boston area
  • Boxborough has multiple EMI labs
  • Article on building an anechoic chamber
  • PCB East was in Boxborough now in Worchester (“Wuh – Stah” 😀 )
  • International Microwave Symposium (IMS) inBoston this year
  • What is driving the Boston ecosystem?
  • NYU wireless
  • 6G summit
  • Components trickling down into the other parts of the industry
  • Ted Rappaport from NYU writing a paper
  • Open RAN
  • 5G standalone vs nonstandalone
  • Poster session
  • ISAC
  • Test equipment has to test everything leading edge
  • 3GPP
  • The impacts of satellite connectivity
  • IoT still talking about LTE
  • 5G modems and battery life
  • Private networks
  • Automation software
  • The Measurement Blues song, among others
  • Find him online
    • Martin Rowe on LinkedIn
    • EEworldonline
  • Martin sent over some links related the things we discussed during the episode
    • 6G discussions: How things have changed. We assembled a timeline of the topics so you can see what’s come and gone
    • Nokia Bell Labs’ Peter Vetter talks 6G research Live from the Brooklyn 6G Summitd
    • Teardown: HP 8112A pulse generator – I bought this at a flea market. MIT holds these once a month April through October. I go every year to buy things for teardowns and to take photos.
    • DSL router uses parts from old phones – Heard about this from a European telecom newsletter and just had to get the details
    • The slide keyboard is back, in a 5G phone – Video interview from 2020. I mentioned the Psion Organizer. The designer of this phone used to work for Psion. He designs beautiful products.
    • Tryout: two low-cost USB inline meters and a load – My latest. This was the one where the audio in the videos seemed overdubbed. I uploaded the videos again using different file names. Seems OK now.

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