The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast #714 – The Measurement Blues with Martin Rowe
Feb 3, 2026
01:17:19
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.