Meeting Report

MOVIN' INTO MOTOWN

The IEEE Symposium on EMC rolled into Detroit August 18-22 and set up exhibit booths at the COBO Center named for a former mayor. The 70-story glass towers that included the conference hotel are GM's Renaissance Center where it was easy to get lost by just walking in circles. The ground floor featured a display of GM cars beginning with a lovingly preserved 1903 Oldsmobile through today's SUVs. Guest tours included the Henry Ford Museum and the Motown Museum. Next year we return to another "music city," Austin, Texas, August 17-21. Ya'll come.

RenCen, as it is nicknamed, is on the rejuvenated Detroit River, one of the world's busiest waterways. Windsor, Canada is on the other shore.

dB Society founders Joe Fischer, Jack Moe and Bob Goldblum enjoyed this year's Sunday dinner at the Rattlesnake Club.

Watching Retlif's booth on opening day are company founders Marilyn and Walter Poggi.

Showing an interested customer what A.H. Systems can do to solve a problem for his company is Jodi Henderson.

Smiles and laughter keep people coming to see Cuming Lehman's Steve Barnes and Randy Ryder.

Answering these visitor's questions about what Panashield can do for them is company vice president and general manager Peggy Girard.

The four musketeers: Tellabs' Nathan Belsher, dB Instruments' Doug Dufault, api's Mike Hopkins and Micro Sales' Sam Newman.

Catching up on what's new are Tom Chesworth of ENR magazine and Mike Caruso of fast-growing Ingenium Testing.

A familiar face from past Symposia is Bruce McAllister, vice president, sales and marketing, of Tech-Etch.

Handling three visitors to Spira's booth at once is right down Mike Kunkel's alley. The man on right is Doug Smith, who reps for Spira.

Coming a long way from Massachusetts are Joe Butler and Shane Hudak of Parker Chomerics.

"Let me be the first to show you our newest product," says AR's "Shep" Shepherd. "It's a laser-powered E-field probe for peak pulse fields."

Holding down the fort for NIST/NVLAP are Tessa Beavers, administrative support, and Brad Moore, program manager.

Ready to help you with the 2009 Symposium in Texas are Dale Stone, Patrick Webb, Glen Watkins and Ross Carlton.

Sending and receiving messages are ham radio operators of the Motor City Radio Club. Thirty people attended the annual BYO luncheon.