Mobile Phone In Microwave

[joggerjayne]

True or urban myth?

You can test if the seals are intact on your microwave by putting your mobile phone inside and seeing if you can phone it.

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Try it and tell us.

[mccfluff]

please do it

[joggerjayne]

But, if I do and it rings, I will be worried that I've been radiating myself to death.

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In the name of scientific research some things are worth the risk...

[mccfluff]

you are you alive??? or are you a myth???

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Or get Olive to do it.

[moonraker558]

It's true!

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Judging by your avatar mooney, your microwave seals are buggered...

[stewey]

Microwave seals? How horribly cruel.

[netibiza]

yes, it's like checking for fuel in a motorbike, just use a lighted match!!

[lankeela]

Sometimes a question just has to be checked out when the title appears on the 'latest posts' - and this was one of them!

[ummmm]

Walkmans can detect faulty microwaves!!!

[ChuckFickens]

Myth...

Microwaves are 2.4Ghz (125mm wavelength) and their cabinets are designed to stop exactly that wavelength, mobile phones are 800Mhz to 1900Mhz (about 375mm to 160mm wavelength) and the cabinets are not designed to stop those wavelengths so some signal may leak through.

A cordless phone that works on 2.4Ghz would be a good test though.