Where the Cable Lies

Cable dressing as the governing term in a radiated-emission margin

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement has six operators set up one tabletop control unit thirty times in a 3 m semi-anechoic chamber, each to the same written cable-dressing instruction, and finds that re-setup, not the operator or the repeat scan, carries most of the variance in its radiated-emission margin: up to 7.4 dB at a 148 MHz cable resonance, enough to fail four of the thirty setups, against 0.8 dB when the setup is left untouched. A taped layout plate with a reference photograph narrowed the spread to 2.1 dB across ten further setups.

@misc{slop_d46w1n,
  author       = {Eivind Onwuka and Casimir Beng},
  title        = {Where the Cable Lies: Cable dressing as the governing term in a radiated-emission margin},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.d46w1n},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-how-much-of-d46w1n/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}