[Amps] How lossy is Nylon at 50 MHz?

Bill Turner dezrat1242 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 7 19:20:55 PDT 2012


ORIGINAL MESSAGE: 
On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 20:32:50 -0500, you wrote:

>I was at a surplus house today, and they had a barrel full of kitchen  
>cutting boards  12x12x1 and whiteish-translucent in color.
>
>Wonder what chemical they might be ?
>
>Don W4DNR

REPLY: 
Almost certainly they are high-density polyethylene. I have used them as a poor
man's breadboard for power supplies and such, and they work fine, but they have
a low melting point and their RF characteristics might not be adequate for high
power stuff.. 

73, Bill W6WRT


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