<ronkean@juno.com> wrote:
> > So why does my mobile phone (GSM ~900MHz) continue to work when
> > placed inside my microwave oven (2.4GHz presumably)?
>
> Check the signal strength meter on the cell phone when it is outside the
> oven. If it indicates a very strong signal, you may be so close to the
> cell site base that the attenuation of the signal by the oven box is not
> sufficient to stop the phone from working.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de