"Dr. Barry L. Ornitz" wrote in message
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It was found that at many restaurants,
the doors were taken off the units and the ovens were operated
continuously. Litton soon provided interlocks on the doors!
People would place food into the cavity without turning off the
microwaves. Other than a few thermal burns, no one was seriously
hurt by the ovens - with one exception.

I installed a 10-foot TVRO at home in 1985 and read an inordinate amount of
material on the subject in the 1980's. I read a "don't let this happen to
you" story about an experimenter who supposedly used a microwave oven
magnetron as a local oscillator for his own TVRO. He didn't shield it
properly and received fatal heating injuries to his internal organs.

Possibly BS, possibly accurate. I tried finding some reference to it on the
Internet but was unsuccessful. Anybody remember the story?

The LO for a C-band TVRO is 5150 MHz, nowhere near a Microwave oven freq
(2450) but its second harmonic, 4900, is a candidate for block
downconversion of some of the channels.

"Sal