Evangelos Tonas wrote an article "EM Shielding Effectiveness of Low-cost Architectural Shielding Materials" that appeared in the 1997 ITEM. This article is available on the web at
http://www.rbitem.com/ITEM_Publications/ITEM_Archives/I97art19.htm Table 1 shows that chicken wire can achieve: * 35 to 48dB shielding against electric fields (E-fields) from 10kHz to 10MHz. * 25 to 33 dB shielding against plane-wave fields from 40MHz to 400MHz. John Barnes ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org
