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Old July 25th 06, 01:56 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Capacitors for HF Antenna

Bill Turner wrote:
He was asking about an RFID application, presumably a few milliwatts.


I think he said 4 watts to a one meter loop. Even in that
application, I suspect the physical flexing of ceramic caps
would cause losses. After mine caught on fire, I found out
that at least some ceramic caps are designed to be biased by DC.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp