[Lowfer] Testing material for losses

Mike-WE0H we0h at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 28 08:51:51 EDT 2009


So we need to build a HF band food cooker to test those materials...hi hi...

Mike
WE0H


KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> Well...  Yeah!
>
> Testing a material in a typical microwave oven tells you the losses at the
> resonant frequency of water, 2.54 GCs (GHz, KMCs et cetera).  Unless you
> plan to operate there, which could prove fatal, or at the very least,
> extremely painful, the test is useless.
>
> Other industrial heating devices operate at 13.560, 27.120 and somewhere in
> the 900 MHz ISDM band, the exact frequency escapes me at the moment.
>
> Kurt




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