Yeah, and it's likely to blow the magnatron from the VSWR mismatch.
It's been 50 years since I worked with that stuff and had the fancy
government tools. Kind of miss it.
On 1/1/22 18:50, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
If you get hit from an open waveguide it feels like flame.
*From:* Jan-GAMs
*Sent:* Saturday, January 1, 2022 5:03 PM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun
1250 watts of 5GHz radiation or 2GHz of radiation (whichever spectrum
it was designed for) is damn dangerous if not shielded. I knew people
who died from that. Someone turned on a radar while the array was
being worked on. He died. You could pull a Daniel Jackson, but Olma
won't ascend you.
On 1/1/22 09:04, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
Yeah, I have a radiation alarm. It was going off continually, for a
moment I thought it was defective.
Turns out I had a thermocouple wire leaking some RF. Burnt the piss
out of my fingers, like picking up a red hot paper clip. Shut off
the magnetron and the wire was totally cool to the touch. Bit of
aluminum foil as a choke and all was well. Next step is coupling a
second magnetron to this cavity.
*From:* Jan-GAMs
*Sent:* Saturday, January 1, 2022 4:08 AM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun
the warning about eyes and testes should be noted.
https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/resources-you-radiation-emitting-products/microwave-oven-radiation
On 12/31/21 16:48, Jaime Solorza wrote:
Pee on it...it works
On Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 1:37 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
wrote:
Got a pretty bad RF burn from some leakage. No blister.
Sent from my iPhone
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