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Turning a microwave oven into a transceiver
While I do imagine how to make a transmitter out of a microwave magnetron (it will be rather bad transmitter, but 60-120WPM CW could be possible, even voice if one manages to modulate the 4kV anode ...
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Turning a microwave oven into a transceiver
There are several problems with magnetrons for communication system. Just a few to start with, the frequency is very unstable. That is actually an advantage when used to heat food, because the hot ...
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Turning a microwave oven into a transceiver
The 1200 watts is the RF output, right?
Typically, it's the High Voltage transformer's input, but the RF conversion in microwave ovens is relatively efficient, which you can see by the fact that they ...
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