There are verified incidents of car engines cutting out when driving past certain U.S. DoD facilities. This hasn't been happening so much recently, so either DoD has stopped their high power operations near the ground surrounding these bases, or modern cars are more resistant. The U.S. DoD has recently resurrected these types of operations to disable drones (at least consumer-grade drones), although DoD must still be doing this somewhat higher than ground level to not harm personnel and ground vehicles. I doubt that corner reflectors will harm the radar itself, but might harm an unprotected human operator nearby. At 01:10 PM 1/4/2020, Mike Stay wrote:
Here's a picture taken by a guy holding a flashbulb and walking towards a radar dish. It's a couple of feet away. No info on how much power the radar was using.
https://books.google.com/books?id=pWAzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=radar+i...
Here are power ratings for different kinds of radar and the hazards they pose: https://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs226/en/
Apparently the danger of radar beams either heating metal hot enough to ignite fuel vapors or to cause sparking is large enough that there are regulations about it:
https://books.google.com/books?id=yv1Zz_CGhU8C&pg=SA2-PA14&lpg=SA2-PA14&dq=r...
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 10:17 AM Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 7:22 AM hbaker1 <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
Have you ever put metal into a microwave?
Sure, but that's a small sealed metal box. Was he standing directly in front of the radar emitter?
Back in the 1950's, some of the soldiers stationed on the "DEW Line" kept themselves warm by standing in front of the radars. Bad idea, but Raytheon then converted the idea into the microwave oven...
Reminds me of this old hoax from 20 years ago: http://www.nmsr.org/darwiner.htm
(One of my first jobs was helping the Public Health Service find leaking microwave ovens which caused eye cataracts in restaurants where they were used.)
Yikes!
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