Re: Microwave ovens and Project Phoenix S-band - how can they tell?

>"Al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Just read the articles at seti.org on the ongoing observations
> by Project Phoenix at Arecibo.  All great stuff, but in all my
> years of reading about SETI, I had not come across Microwave
> Ovens as being a major source of RFI.  Yet MOs were
> implicated 3 times in those SETI Institute articles.
>
> I'm curious:  how are they able to differentiate MOs from other
> users of the 2.4 GHz band?  I know of many people [1] who
> abuse the airwaves by pushing their 802.11b wireless
> networking systems to ridiculously high powers and range.
> Surely these are the culprits of the 2.4 GHz noise?
>
>
> [1] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010712.html
>

The Arecibo antenna is extremely sensitive so I imagine that
any microwave emissions (cell phones, microwave ovens,
wireless equipment of all kinds...) are verboten in the
immediate vicinity of the telescope.

Interesting though regarding the 802.11b wireless ....
Al