What is the goal of the project?

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 9:28 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:

> Pretty sure these consumer grade microwave ovens are robust from mismatch
> issues.
> They have to be considering all the different loads you can put in the
> oven.  An open waveguide is actually a pretty good antenna with a return
> loss of around 10 dB.  But then it is piped into a box that is totally
> reflective.  In my case I aim the field at a layer of silicon carbide to
> absorb the energy and convert it to heat.
>
> *From:* Jan-GAMs
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 1, 2022 8:14 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun
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>
> 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
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> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT having fun
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>
> 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:* [email protected]
> *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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Got a pretty bad RF burn from some leakage.  No blister.
>>
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