[clug] Microwave/Wireless

[Drew Parsons]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 12:26 +1100, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> 
> >
> > The Standard specifies a test to assess the level of microwave leakage 
> > and states that 'The microwave leakage at any point 50 millimetres or 
> > more from the external surface of the appliance shall not exceed 50 
> > watts per square metre'. ...
> 
> I'm not a communications engineer, so I don't know how to convert from 
> flux (Watt/square metre) into the equivalent source power of an 
> omnidirectional transmitter - but I would expect that those numbers 
> translate to something more powerful than 100mW. 

At 50mm radius, the surface of the sphere is 4\pi R^2 = 0.031 m^2.

So 50 W/m^2 is 1.6 watts omnidirectional, about 10 times greater than
100mW.

Drew