Re: Aluminum foil on the walls

Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Tue, 21 Sep 1999 06:29:40 -0700 (PDT)

From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)

>Hmm. Right. I didn't think about it that way yet. If the oven
>provides, say, 30dB attenuation, then this will render the
>escaping radiation at 600W operation uttlerly harmless. But 30dB
>should be easy to handle for a phone if it has reasonably good
>reception.

>So much for Faraday cages.

Microwave ovens are NOT Faraday cages.

Brian

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