On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Roman Black wrote:

>Lawrence Lile wrote:
>>
>> We had considering just setting a hummingbird feeder inside a running
>> microwave with the door interlock defeated, but the biologist I am doing
>> this for had some .. ah... concerns.
>
>Lawrence! I'm amazed! That is a TRULY AWFUL
>suggestion. Awful. Because the magnetron will
>soon overheat! ;o)

Sorry, the magnetron will overheat iff the SWR is bad. An open door
guarantees (almost) a low SWR ratio. Therefore the magnetron will not
overheat. This has been tried ;-). *Everyone* from Alpha Centauri onwards
knows that humans use 2.4GHz microwaves frequency and amplitude modulated
with 50 or 60Hz for *something*. <g> Presumably to reheat some dead
animal's mashed remains for ritual purposes. <G>

Peter

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