RE: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread Gary McInturff
@compuserve.com] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:36 AM To: David Instone; ieee pstc list Subject: Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest A lump of coal will heat up in a microwave oven. No water needed. It is the bulk resistivity of an object which allows circulating currents to generate

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread Ken Javor
the opaque plastic lid. Potentials induced on the remnant metal strips were high enough to arc over... -- From: umbdenst...@sensormatic.com To: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: RE: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2001, 9:49 AM I once warmed up some

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread Ken Javor
@compuserve.com To: David Instone david_inst...@uk.xyratex.com, ieee pstc list emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2001, 9:35 AM A lump of coal will heat up in a microwave oven. No water needed. It is the bulk resistivity of an object

RE: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread UMBDENSTOCK
: Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Microwave safe dishes do not heat if put in an oven without food on them to heat by conduction; melmac cannot be pt in a microwave because it does absorb - I don't know what's in melmac but it must have some water content

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread Cortland Richmond
Date: 23-Apr-01 02:07:07 MsgID: 1078-34037 ToID: 72146,373 From: David Instone INTERNET:david_inst...@uk.xyratex.com Subj: Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Chrg: $0.00 Imp: Norm Sens: StdReceipt: NoParts: 1 List-Post: emc-pstc

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread Ken Javor
. -- From: david_inst...@uk.xyratex.com (David Instone) To: Ken Javor ken.ja...@emccompliance.com Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2001, 3:05 AM Ken Javor wrote: Just goes to show you can find anything

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-23 Thread David Instone
Ken Javor wrote: Just goes to show you can find anything on the net. I have measured leakage from microwave ovens and every one was at 2450 MHz. And that IS a resonant frequency for water and water alone. That's why you can put waterless items in and they won't heat up, Hm, now I wonder

RE: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-21 Thread Doug McKean
Subject: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Someone on this forum likely knows the answer to this question... I was at Wal-Mart the other day and they had 2.4 GHz cordless phones on clearance. My home cordless phones are 900 MHz. One is multiple channels, the other

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-21 Thread John Cronin
hz cordless phone use 900mw on the base unit and 200mw on the handset. I would suspect the field intensity that close to the head could be substantial. Ralph Cameron - Original Message - From: "Ken Javor" <ken.ja...@emccompliance.com> To: <emc-p...@ieee.org> Sent: Fr

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-21 Thread Ralph Cameron
be substantial. Ralph Cameron - Original Message - From: Ken Javor ken.ja...@emccompliance.com To: emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 5:40 PM Subject: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Someone on this forum likely knows the answer to this question... I

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-21 Thread Ken Javor
a microwave oven without a water load: with no load you get high vswr and the magnetron can be damaged by reflected energy. -- From: Rich Nute ri...@sdd.hp.com To: ken.ja...@emccompliance.com Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest Date: Fri

Re: 2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-20 Thread Rich Nute
Hi Ken: Here are some quotes: http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/weird/microexp.html#demo: Q: Aren't these ovens tuned to a special frequency so they only heat water? A: No. The usual operating frequency of a microwave oven is nowhere near the resonant frequency of water, and the

2. 4 GHz cordless telephone, question of general interest

2001-04-20 Thread Ken Javor
Someone on this forum likely knows the answer to this question... I was at Wal-Mart the other day and they had 2.4 GHz cordless phones on clearance. My home cordless phones are 900 MHz. One is multiple channels, the other is some kind of spread spectrum. 2.4 GHz is very close to 2450 MHz, the