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The Curmudgeon recently read an influential article in the August, 2012, issue of IEEE’s Spectrum magazine. The piece is titled, “Our Tools Are Using Us,” and was written by William ...
For tower professionals and those that work in the broadcast and wireless industries, safety is paramount. While RF safety awareness is an important aspect of any hazard assessment, all professionals ...
The year is 1960, and the young Curmudgeon-to-be, still a university student, is working part-time as a counter clerk in a general electronics store and is simultaneously soaking up an ...
In the past several postings we’ve gone through some pretty “heavy” matters: FCC blunders, pillaging of the RF spectrum, the prospect of future unlimited RF noise. Now it’s time for ...
In Part 2 of this series we looked at some of the sources of man-made radio frequency (RF) noise and made a simple estimation of the amount of interference that ...
In the first part of this series we developed some basic understanding of the sources of unwanted radiofrequency noise, and how much of a significant hindrance to ordinary radio communications ...
In the last blog posting we looked at probably the biggest long term threat to the future usefulness of the radiofrequency spectrum, the accelerating large scale consumption of a scarce ...
Distributed Antenna Systems, or DAS, is a small-cell wireless application that improves a wireless network and can also cause interference problems. DAS deployments have important implications for building owners, as ...
Degraded signals are the bane of a wireless system, yet the RF environment increasingly is cluttered with potential hazards to clear signals. One of the most fundamental signal threats is ...
For many months, now stretching into years, the Curmudgeon has been searching for logical explanations to a bedrock fundamental question, the very one which underlies almost all of his recent ...
