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    Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1

    Tech Ingredients

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2022–2025

    YouTube

    29:28 · 2.4M views · Mar 5, 2022

    Tech Ingredients demonstrates how microwaves work and how they affect objects at range, then shows ways to defend against them. It includes a correction about rectifier output frequency.

    HN commenters recommend it as a practical explanation of microwave hazards and shielding, and of using microwave ovens safely without an enclosure.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @NavinFSep 2023· in “French regulators order Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12”

      At the power levels we're talking about (5W)? Of course I would. The effects are well known: It heats your hands up at 5 joules per second. Incidentally, Tech Ingredients has a great video on using microwave ovens without an enclosure and how to block similar directed energy weapons that use a lot more than 5W: this video

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    2. @amatechaMar 2025· in “Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia”

      Probably also worth watching a related video from the same channel: "Defeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1" this video

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    3. @silent_speechApr 2022· in “Don’t Cook Yourself with RF Energy”

      If your device is hacked at the firmware level, it can be turned into a microwave weapon and used against you. (My hypothesis of the cause of Havana Syndrome: hacked cell transmitters beaming microwave at targets.) Tech Ingredients (YouTube creator) made an instructional video about how microwaves work and how to defend against them: " this video ".

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