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At my former job we had a rather large faraday cage for testing telco equipment. Two things surprised me: 1) It is more fiddly to ensure a room-sized faraday ca
by bborud 5y ago
At my former job we had a rather large faraday cage for testing telco equipment. Two things surprised me: 1) It is more fiddly to ensure a room-sized faraday cage doesn't leak RF than I thought. It is really easy to make mistakes that compromises experiments. 2) There was a bath-towel sized piece of cloth that came with one of the expensive Rohde & Schwarz instruments that was astonishingly effective at blocking signal.
So I mainly used the room because that's where the magic blanket was - which was easier to use than ensuring the room was set up correctly.
- op00to 5y agoI see one of the founders (Ulrich Rhode) of Rhode and Schwarz on amateur radio some times, and I always ask for test equipment and he always says no.
- kortilla 5y agoMaybe stop asking then?
- shapefrog 5y agoI see you are from <insert whatever company you are at is>, can you please send me a lifetime supply of whatever you make / have / sell please?
- op00to 5y agoHey, when my customers ask they are free to have a lifetime supply of our product! It’s free to anyone!
- Luc 5y agoThat's very cool, he's basically test equipment royalty. But he's the son of one of the founders - Rhode & Schwarz was founded in the 1930's.
- op00to 5y agoIt’s good natured ribbing usually exchanged over QSL cards. I didn’t know he was the son! Ulrich never misses a QSL card for me. Cool dude!
- relaxing 5y agoI once tried to acquire a RS PR100 like the one used in the test here. Turns out they cost more than a fancy car!