hello! experience with 802.11x and extreme humidity?

[Chris Hill]

Hi Armin,

Why do you say that 2.4GHz is a resonance frequency of water?  It's not.

For a basic starter, see :

http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens.html


The first significant atmospheric attenuation peaks that I'm aware of, are
at 22.2GHz and 183.3GHz, both caused by water vapour resonances.  Further
peaks at 60GHz and 120GHz are caused by resonances of molecular oxygen.

(See p. 696 of "Microwave Engineering", by David Pozar, ISBN 0-201-50418-9)


So, yes, a 2.4GHz signal is attenuated by atmospheric water content, but,
no, 2.4GHz is not a resonant frequency of water.

Hope this helps,



Chris

p.s  If you go to the above URL, will you be able to resist reproducing the
grape experiment?
http://www.pmichaud.com/grape/







-----Original Message-----
From: wireless-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:wireless-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Armin Roehrl
Sent: Saturday, 12 October 2002 10:54 PM
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Subject: hello! experience with 802.11x and extreme humidity?


Hello all,

	I subscribed to this Australian list hoping that
s.b. here has experience how 802.11x performs
under extreme humidity (fog, rain).

2.4 GHz is a resonance frequency of water -- so
I assume the receiving quality to go down with
humidity.

What about 5.6GHz?

Does anybody have concrete numbers to share?

I think the potential temperatures would be between
18C to 35C and I expect up to 80% humidity.

Thx & thank you very much for any experience you can share.
-A.

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