Although Arbitron’s Personal People Meter test in Houston began in January, the audience research firm is replacing all meters in the field. Why? Because daily hardware quality tests built into the ...

EMC Test Design, maker of the Smart Fieldmeter for EMI and RF testing, has added two probes and a modem to its product line. The PI-05 probe ($3500) has a frequency range of 100 MHz to 40 GHz. That ...

The first meter was installed at Central Maine Power in September 2010. Two years ago, Central Maine Power Co. (CMP) swapped out 600,000 traditional meters with smart meters funded in part through a ...

Needing an E-field meter and wondering how the more inexpensive ones compare to those costing thousands of dollars more, I purchased the Extech model 480836 handheld meter at $279 to characterize the ...

The PI 4100’s ergonomic design makes operation simple. Field intensity meters, long a primary tool in AM field work, haven’t changed much. I have in my inventory Potomac FIM-21s, FIM-41s and even a ...

We’re used to Hall effect devices as proximity sensors in mechanical systems, used to provide detection of something that has a magnet attached to it. However it’s easy to forget that the devices that ...