Birds on a Cell Site

[email protected] (Cinder Lane) wrote in news:17048-44FC333D-5
@storefull-3231.bay.webtv.net:

>> "I saw several birds happily sitting on a cell phone
>>tower yesterday. They were sitting right on the antenna
>>panels! Why didn't they fry and fall-over dead?"
>
> They must have been carrier pigeons.
>
>

Oh... that IS cute! May I use it?

....{carrier} pigeons. <snicker> :-))

buck

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"John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Microwave ovens use 2450MHz, which happens to be the right
> frequency to excite water molecules.

Yes, although there's nothing particularly special about 2.45GHz -- water
absorbs RF energy over quite broad frequency ranges, and the choice of 2.45GHz
was driven by a tradeoff between being able to cook deep within feeds while
still absorbing enough energy to cook quickly. See:
http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens.html

Note that specialized industrial microwave sometimes do use different
frequencies based on the exact type, shape, and size of food that's being
cooked.

---Joel