{"id":192,"date":"2012-05-25T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.rsgbtestzone.biz\/wordpress\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2025-09-18T18:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:38:48","slug":"electromagnetic-compatibility-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/electromagnetic-compatibility-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"EMC Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19259\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/SpectrumAnalyzerDisplay-230px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/SpectrumAnalyzerDisplay-230px.png 230w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/02\/SpectrumAnalyzerDisplay-230px-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>The prevention of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) between electronic equipment has become a major issue. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This topic comes under the general name of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>What we do<\/h2>\n<p>The EMC Committee (EMCC) has four main functions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To help and\u00a0advise on members \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/technical\/emc\/\">EMC problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To lobby regulators and <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/technical\/emc\/emc-standards-work\/\">guide standards<\/a> to protect the spectrum<\/li>\n<li>To investigate emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/technical\/emc\/emerging-emc-problems\/\">EMC threats<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To develop methods to improve communication in noisy environments<\/li>\n<li>To represent members on these and other EMC matters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4452 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/images\/EMC_Interference_01.png\" alt=\"House and signal traces\" width=\"193\" height=\"147\" \/>To achieve these aims the committee maintains contacts with industry, regulators and service providers. It\u00a0is an active member of the <a title=\"Spectrum Forum\" href=\"\/main\/about-us\/committees\/spectrum-forum\/\">RSGB Spectrum Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want help with diagnosis of an interference problem the <a title=\"EMC Committee Advice\" href=\"\/main\/technical\/emc\/\">EMC technical section<\/a> is your first port of call. If you want to talk to someone about your problem\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/committees\/electromagnetic-compatibility-committee\/contact\/\">contact the Help Desk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0If you need help with technical topics or applicable standards the committee are the best people to <a href=\"\/main\/about-us\/committees\/electromagnetic-compatibility-committee\/contact\/\">contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EMC Committee publishes a bi-monthly two page article in <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/radcom\/\"><em>RadCom<\/em><\/a> on EMC-related topics and experimental work.<\/p>\n<p>EMCC is also the lead group regarding exposure to <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/technical\/emc\/emf-exposure\/\">Electromagnetic Fields (EMF). Please address any EMF queries to emc.chairman@rsgb.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prevention of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) between electronic equipment has become a major issue. This topic comes under the general name of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). What we do The EMC Committee (EMCC) has four main functions: To help and\u00a0advise on members \u00a0EMC problems To lobby regulators and guide standards to protect the spectrum To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42513,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/192\/revisions\/42513"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}