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- From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
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- Subject: Re: coating materials for antennas
- Keywords: antennas materials
- Message-ID: <massoud.71.715277882@chemteca.sdsu.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:18:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.205111.26384@alw.nih.gov> <6790@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
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- In article <6790@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> thomasn@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Thomas M Nathe) writes:
- >From: thomasn@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Thomas M Nathe)
- >Subject: Re: coating materials for antennas
- >Keywords: antennas materials
- >Date: 30 Aug 92 06:22:06 GMT
- >I've used hot dip anodizing and zinc oxide paint for aluminum with moderate
- >success with the zinc oxide. The hot dip works well for salt spray and other
- >hostile enviroments, don't know the cost though. The zinc oxide paint was used
- >as a primer on the helocopters I worked on while doing time in the army.
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- If for some reason painting is needed for antenna, you should use paint with
- high dielectric constant. The amount of loss based on this process, if you
- drive the boudray condition, is the ratio of both dielectric constants of
- two different mediums. If you have metal with free radical in it as
- sugessted, the field decays (skin depth), and since you can not paint less
- than that thickness, you will lose most of the signal. Most polymers have
- dielectric constant of 2.2 (e.r= Epsilon sub r), remember e.o is 5.8 e-12 F/
- m, and e=e.o x e.r.Aluminum oxide has dielectric constant of about 8.0. Use
- ACRYLIC ENAMEL, I believe it has no free radical in it.
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- Peace and Prosperity!
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