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From: jtwarden@pawl.rpi.edu (Joseph T. Warden)
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Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun!
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Date: 2 Jun 89 00:50:36 GMT
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Summary:Detection of rf in the "real world"

In article <575@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> oconnor@nuke (Dennis M. O'Connor) writes:
>With a high resistance connection and zero inductance, the losses
>would be in to resistive heating. 
>
>Try shorting a big capacitor while someone in an adjacent,
>sonically-isolated area listens to an AM radio low in
>the band : you should be able to here the EM energy !
>
>--
> Dennis O'Connor   oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP  ARPA: OCONNORDM@CRD.GE.COM

For anyone with experience with rf generating equipment (ie.
Q-switched Nd-YAG lasers), your suggestion is one of the tricks
for determining paths of rf transmission - we use a portable
FM radio with a directional antenna.

Joseph Warden
Department of Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

jtwarden@pawl.rpi.edu