Re: Structural support, was: oil dielectric

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Of course, the microwave is at 2450 MHz, and the TC is at 0.245 MHz... a
mere 5 orders of magnitude.  Lots of things have lots of loss at >500 MHz
and are just fine down low (FR4 and G10 come to mind..)

At TC frequencies, magnetic properties and bulk resistivity are probably
more important

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> You can get some relative indication of RF losses for a material by
> putting it into a microwave oven.  I did this once to dry out a piece of
> ABS (for my swimming pool :) and did not notice much heating.  Rob.
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