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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by gaudat on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#26871112)
The mad scientist in me says to use a microwave magnetron pointing at the neighbor's house to fry all their 2.4 GHz stuff.. Could that work in principle?
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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by 01100011 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:21AM (#26871318)
I doubt you'd damage anything permanently but you'd swamp the frontends and cause it to temporarily stop working.

I used to fantasize as a kid about doing this to a satellite. Phased array of cheap magnetrons and all that. I doubt that would work though.

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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by caf on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:52AM (#26871490)
Not quite the same, but Serbian forces used microwave ovens with the door interlocks defeated as cheap decoys for anti-radiation missiles in the Kosovo war.
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Re:Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with hi... by wankeler on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:36AM (#26871399)
Can you phase synchronise magnetrons? I thought they are a free running oscillator.

Also circa 1kW not a safe thing to be spraying around, I think fleshy things might well be damaged.

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