• Oct 21-23 Northcon
• Oct 24 NW Area meeting, Spokane Washington
• Oct 31-Nov 5 Digital Avionics System Conference

• Booth Duty at Northcon
• Please vote!!! Your vote counts
• IEEE Ex-Com is entertaining the idea of branding. Replace the kite logo with the stylized letters IEEE. Societies would be asked to no longer use their logos. We would no longer be the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers instead we would be known as IEEE.

• Finalize the Audit
• Place a budget forward for approval
• Find a Student Activities Chair
• Logo Wear

Subject: COM-19 report
rekeyed from yesterday's handwritten report:

1. No meetings yet this year, due to room logistics difficulties
2. Two speakers lined up:
   • IEEE 1394 and future extensions
   • Gigabit Ethernet
3. More topics in the queue:
   • Cable modems
   • Home networking media
   • Wireless communications update
   • Digital Subscriber Loops
   • IPv6

Subject: EMC REPORT

Chapter Chairman's Report - October 13, 1998

The September meeting of the Seattle Chapter of the IEEE EMC Society was held on the 29th at CKC Laboratories in Redmond. The speaker was Bob Dockey of Hewlett Packard. Bob spoke on PWB design considerations to minimize radiated emissions. Bob appeared through the EMC Society's Distinguished Lecturer program.

The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 28. Chris Kendall of CKC Laboratories will present a 4 hour hands on tutorial on EMC test techniques. This meeting will start at 4 PM, rather than the more traditional 7 PM.

I have been elected to a three year term starting January 1 on the EMC Society Board of Directors.

Planning is progressing for the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on EMC, to be hosted in Seattle in August of next year.

Ghery S. Pettit, NCE
Chairman, Seattle Chapter
IEEE EMC Society

Officers.....

Chairman:

Ghery S. Pettit, NCE
Intel Corporation
(253) 371-5515
(253) 371-5690 (FAX)
g.pettit@ieee.org

Janet O'Neil
Lindgren RF Enclosures
(425) 868-2558
(425) 868-0547 (FAX)
j.n.oneil@ieee.org

Kitty Tam
Northwest EMC, Inc.
(206) 485-0960
(206) 485-3965 (FAX)
ktam@nwemc.com

John Kuras
Boeing
(206) 717-1363
john.c.kuras@boeing.com

CAS - 4 / PEL - 31 MEETING REPORT
CAS PEL Meeting Report for

MEETING DATE: 10/8/98

Section Seattle - Area 6

Subsection (none)

Type of Meeting? Technical
Was a fee charged? NO

Attendance: IEEE members: 15

non-members: 01

Total attendees: 16

Presiding Officers: Merv Eaton for PEL - 31

Title of Paper: Taking the Magic out of Magnetiometers.

Speaker: Phil Questad Crane - Eldec
Address: Martha Lake - Seattle

Speaker Evaluation: Strongly recommended.

Attendees:

• John Damonte
• William Murray
• Cleon Anderson
• Arthur Astrin
• Justin Biddle, Wescon Director)
• Larry Hamerman
• Rhonda Schennum
• John Angwin
• Jack Nawrocki
• Paul Kostek
• Howard Kohlbacher
• Peter Bergsneider.

IEEE Region (1-6) has now 320,000 members. Region 6 membership is up.
IEEE may change from 501-6 rather than 501-c IRS organization.

Next Spring EXCOM meeting will be Saturday, 2/27/99 in Salt Lake City with PACE meeting on 2/28/99. (Bring your skis).
Section's Congress will be 10/8-11/99 in Minneapolis.

Larry presented 1998/99 budget and current expenses. We are significantly under-spent so far. Motion to add $5,000 to NW area budget passed unanimously.
Motion to pass the budget passed unanimously.
The expenses for attending this meeting will be paid by Region 6. If you need a copy of the Region 6 Expense Policy or an expense form, please contact the Larry Hamerman at 619-453-0652 or by e-mail at l.hamerman@ieee.org.

Please send me email addresses of any new section officers. I have received written NW, NE Area reports for inclusion in the minutes.

Paul reported on SPACs, had 7 in each area. May 6 awards went to Region 6. Attendance was over 300.

Howard reported on progress in program to increase membership in Region 6. Membership went from 50,487 to 52,403, a change of 3.8%. Student membership went from 3,553 to 4,125, a change of 16%. Senior membership went from 97 to 98, virtually no change. National goal is 200. He reported on member get a member program.