[amsat-bb] Fwd: [50MHzandUp] Fwd: Fw: COVID-19 Microwave Inactivation Research - Parts needed

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This just came across the m/wave club's reflector. Nothing to do with satcomms but it is amateur radio m/wave content.

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On Jul 21, 2020, 17:57, at 17:57, David Vieira <dpvieira at alumni.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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>From: David Vieira <dpv at ieee.org>
>Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 5:55 PM
>Subject: Fw: COVID-19 Microwave Inactivation Research - Parts needed
>To: David Vieira <dpvieira at alumni.ucdavis.edu>
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>*From:* Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
><ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
>*To:* Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
><ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
>*Sent:* Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 05:51:20 PM PDT
>*Subject:* [Ground-station] Fwd: COVID-19 Microwave Inactivation
>Research -
>Parts needed
>
>If you can help Tony Long out, please get in touch with him.
>
>-Michelle W5NYV
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>From: *Tony Long* <tonylong at gmail.com>
>Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 5:13 PM
>Subject: COVID-19 Microwave Inactivation Research - Parts needed
>To: <sdmicrowave at googlegroups.com>, <sbms at ham-radio.com>
>
>
>Fellow microwavers - it is time to apply your hobby to help save lives!
>I'm part of a small consortium working to determine whether the
>COVID-19
>virus can be inactivated with RF energy.  One of my colleagues 
>published
>results a few years back with a different virus and it showed that the
>virus in question could be destroyed with a very reasonable field
>strength
>in the few Ghz range.  Simulations show that the COVID-19 virus (which
>has
>a polarized, spherical shell) should resonate somewhere roughly in the
>8-12
>GHz range.  We need to find the resonance(s) so we can build devices to
>destroy the virus.
>
>Our test setup will involve two phases - first is spectral absorption
>measurement of a sample held between two horn antennas inside a
>bio-safety
>fume hood.  We want to do this at very low power levels to avoid
>destroying
>the virus before it is characterized.  Phase two will involve
>determining
>the energy density required to inactivate the virus.
>
>We are starting first with a similar, but non-human coronavirus and if
>it
>shows promise we will move to the COVID-19 virus in a bio-hazard level
>3
>facility at either UC Irvine or Duke University.  The academic team is
>working to get fast track funding now.
>
>I would like to get a test setup going as soon as possible so that we
>can
>get this  into the labs functional and with minimal intervention.  To
>that
>end, this Friday, Rohde & Schwarz is dropping off a high performance
>VNA
>but I need some other loaner parts until we get budget to buy them.  I
>imagine that among this community we can cobble together components and
>would love to have the amateur microwave community contribute to this
>important effort.  I'll let you imagine how useful RF decontamination
>might
>be for a variety of scenarios.
>
>Here's the team we've assembled:
>
>Dr. Brian Wong <https://www.uclahealth.org/brian-wong> – Pulmonary,
>Critical care at UCLA
>
>Dr. Matthew Brenner <http://www.bli.uci.edu/mattbrenner/> – Professor
>of
>Pulmonary Medicine at UC Irvine
>
>Dr. Donald Forthal
><http://www.immunology.uci.edu/profiles/forthal-donald.asp> – Professor
>in
>the Center for Virus Research at UC Irvine
>
>Fred Mohamadi <http://www.tialinx.com/> PhD. – founder of Tialinx, Inc.
>
>Zhongping Chen <https://engineering.uci.edu/users/zhongping-chen> PhD.
>–
>Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine
>
>Chi-Kuang Sun
><http://gipo.ntu.edu.tw/eng/e_p6student-5-detail2.php?sn=25&is_manage=0&title_code=01>
>PhD. – Distinguished Professor Photonics and Optoelectronics, National
>Taiwan University
>
>Tuan Vo-Dinh <https://bme.duke.edu/faculty/tuan-vo-dinh> PhD. –
>Professor
>of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
>
>Steve Stone – Senior Technical Fellow, Northrop Grumman
>
>
>If you have the following equipment or know someone at a company that
>would
>like to loan equipment to the cause it would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>Tony Long KC6QHP
>
>
>WR-90 15 dB standard Gain horn antenna (need two)
>
>WR-137 10 or 15 dB standard gain horn antenna (need two)
>
>WR-90 to N transitions (need two)
>
>WR-137 to N transitions (need two)
>
>A pair of quality test cables (unclear what sizes are needed but likely
>36
>inches), with N terminations
>
>~10 watt power amplifier covering 5-18 Ghz
>
>High power attenuator (18 Ghz, 30dB, 20 watts max)
>
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