Links

Brian Collins' selection of useful links and resources

Clients' project files

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Professional Institutions

• IET (was IEE) (UK)
• IEEE (USA)
• IEEE Communications Society
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

Standards and regulation

• 3G Planning Partnership (3GPP)
• Antenna Interface Standards Group (AISG)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Deutsche Institute für Normung  (DIN)
• European Radio Office (ERO)
• European Telecoms Standards Institute (ETSI)
• Federal Communications Commission  (FCC)
• GSM MOU Organisation (GSM MoU)
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
• International Standards Organisation (ISO)
• International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST - US)
• UK Office for Communications (Ofcom)

Industry bodies

• CTIA
• PCIA
• TIG    The TETRA Industry Group

Links to other Consultants

• Click here for links to other consultants who are members of  the IEE Consultants Professional Group PG-M9

Antenna and communications research groups

• Aalborg, Centre for Personal Communication
• Birmingham University
• Bristol University CRC
• Griffith University (Queensland, Australia)
• MIT
• Ohio State: ElectroScience Lab
• Queen Mary, University of London
• Queen's University Belfast
• Sheffield University
• UCLA Wireless Adaptive Mobility Lab
• University College London
• University of Kent at Canterbury
• University of Michigan RADLAB
• Virginia Tech: Center for Wireless Communications

Safety issues concerning non-ionizing radiation (RADHAZ),
with particular emphasis on the current state of research into potential health effects of mobile phones

Organizations, current reports and bibliographies

Organizations

• Australian Centre for Radiofrequncy Bioeffects Research
• Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) resources include on-site measured data and Public Health Complaints Register
• German Mobile Telecommunications Research Program
• European BioElectromagnetics Association has a selection of links to other European resources
• FCC documents on Radiation Safety
• ICNIRP   International Committee on Non-ionising Radiation Protection, which has set the current international exposure limits
• Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (UK)
• NRPB/HPA   (National Radiation Protection Board, UK, is now part of the Health Protection Agency))
• US FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health
• World Health Organization: Electromagnetic Fields

Reports and other documents (by date)

• MTHR Report 2007 An update on research findings and new work in the UK
• Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: Case control study One of the latest long-term studies published (BMJ short paper)
• Powerwatch (A site with papers taking a critical stance)
• A Summary of Recent Reports on Mobile Phones and Health (Sienkiewicz and Kowalczuk, UK NRPB, Dec 2004)
• Mobile Phones and Health 2004: Report by the Board of NRPB
  The latest update of the Stuart Report
• EU COST281 - Potential Health Implications from Mobile Communication Systems  Links to current research programs and conferences
• IET Position statement (May 2006)
• Mobile telephone base stations - effects on health and well being (Hutter, Mochammer and Kundi, Institute of Environmental Health, U of Vienna, 2002)
• Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields:
  Report of the Independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (NRPB, Late 2003)
• Mobile Telecommunications & Health Research Program (UK)
  This site is regularly updated with new links
• Epidemiological Studies of Cellular Telephones and Cancer Risk   (Boice & McLaughlin, Sweden 2002)
• L'incidence éventuelle de la téléphonie mobile sur la santé
  (Report to the French Senate, in French, Nov 2002)
• Zmirou report to the French Directorate General of Health
  (in English, 2001)
• Thermal and non-thermal mechanisms of biological interaction of microwaves (J M Williams) A challenge to prevailing opinions
• Possible Health Effects from Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA): Report of the Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (NRPB 2001)
• Microwave ovens - Exposure control
  (UK Health and Safety Executive Local Authority circular, Sep 2000)
• The nature of self-reported elecromagnetic hypersensitivity
  (a COST-244 report)
• ...and some less reassuring views from Dr Neil Cherry (2000)

• Textbook
   Blank, M (Ed), Electromagnetic Fields: Biological Interactions and Mechanisms, Advances in Chemistry Series, No 250, American Chemical Society

Commercial links

• Nokia: Mobile communications and health
• Motorola: Wireless communications and health
• Sony-Ericsson: Radiowaves and Health

Software

• CST (Microwave Studio): my preferred modeling tool

RF Resources

• RF Café Hardware, software, news, chat.... everything

Patents

• EspaceNet  An excellent site for searching worldwide patents
• European Patent Office
• Reddie & Grose (Patent Agents)
• UK Patent Office
• US Patents & Trademarks Office
• WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization

Instruments and measurement systems

• Agilent
• Anritsu
• NearField Systems Inc (NSI)
• Rhode & Schwarz
• SATIMO Antenna measurement systems
• Summitek Passive intermodulation measurement systems

Library & Web resources

• The British Library
  

Language resources

• Translation services online  BabelFish  (Use this with care!)
• Dictionary resources            Yourdictionary
                                                Granddictionnaire

And just superb websites...

...best for broadband users.

• AntennaDesign
  Absolutely nothing to do with antennas, but a wonderful site to explore. Do try Power Flower!

• Horizon-0
  Choose the Flash option; wander through the previous issues and have fun.
• Storynest
  The art of Hsin Chien Huang: a very satisfying use of web media in art.