[118717] in Cypherpunks
Re: [Fwd: [Spooks] spooky-ibook?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Oct 6 11:37:03 1999
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 07:59:19 -0700
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>, cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Sunder <sunder@sunder.net>
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Reply-To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
>>> This BS. The 2400 MHz band in question is designated worldwide (including
>>> France) as an ISM (Industrial Scientific and Medical) band. This is where
>>> microwave ovens operate, because this is where the major polar
resonance of
>>> the water molecule is located.
No one has corrected this yet. The 2450 band is simply
a convention; water would be warmed by any microwave (as anyone
whose tried to use a microwave data link in wet weather
can attest to), resonance is *not* involved.
There is a faq out there, at least a decade old, which
explains this.
(Consider also the tuning precision you'd need to hit
a resonance, vs. the stamped-metal resonators on magnetrons.)
