#714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe

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!
• Kenneth Wyatt
• Concentrated vs diffuse information
• Product reviews
• Unitrend scope video
• Tek 5 series B
• Wirecutter for test equipment / parts
• Skepticism
• Webinars – 3 levels
• Martin has an HP34401A 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 Worcester (“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.