[RFI] Zapped

[EDWARDS, EDDIE J]

Instead of each side mocking each other over what is or isn't safe, how about we all just take the position to be safe and following mfr & gubermint recommendations for safe usage:
http://tinyurl.com/mxagz4g 

You're more likely to be burned by overheating food or water than radiation from the oven, but they still recommend safe operation to limit exposure as well.  So both sides are basically wrong.  

As someone with firsthand exposure to 7000cGy (rad) each day over 7 weeks (rad therapy in 2006), I can tell you it takes a whole lot of power over a period of time before you start seeing the side effects, and the total cumulative side effects are also delayed over the years as well.  

The biggest problem with microwave ovens for hams is the RFI/EMI it emits. 

73, de ed -K0iL

-----Original Message-----
From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of CR

On 2/25/2015 9:37 PM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> Many years ago when I worked for Mobilecom we had an instance of a homeless
> person getting killed because he noticed how warm it was in the path of one
> of the horns one winter evening.  He smelled like roast turkey.

*Origins:*   Those in the telecommunications industry have known the 
"cooked telephone man" legend for many a year now - it's a perennial 
tale among them. One of our correspondents recalls hearing it in 1985, 
soon after he joined British Columbia Telephone Co. Another was regaled 
with it in 1962 by his family, who claimed the accident had happened 
around 1950 in Montana when the DEW line was being installed. As he 
heard ...
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwave.asp
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