How to find EMC test reports on the FCC website

You can search the FCC's website to locate EMC test reports, and this video shows you how. This can be helpful for reading examples or as a go-by for producing your own report. You can find information not published in vendor manuals or on product websites. The test reports reveal interesting information, like photos of the internal circuitry.

The information is available through the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET).

This tip works for any product that has a built-in wireless device for Bluetooth, wi-fi, or communicating over cellular networks (like cell phones and smart phones). Those devices must be submitted to the FCC for certification.

Most digital and electronic devices don't have to apply for certification, only verification, so their reports aren't available in the FCC database. But for devices that contain radios, you can see their EMC testing process and results as well as the wireless signal strength tests. You can see how the products' radiated and conducted emissions pass the FCC limits for Class B unintentional radiators.