#714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
Martin Rowe is a long time technical editor for publications like EE World, EDN, and Test and Measurement World. He stops by The Amp Hour to talk about the things he has seen and the people he has met in the electronics industry,
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
February 3, 20261h 17m
Show Notes
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 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.