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If you make your house a faraday cage would you be allowed to use WiFi?

gambiting 10y ago
Microwaves are not allowed, because for the fraction of a second between you opening the door and the generator switching off there is always a tiny leakage of microwave energy - and it has actually set off radars in sensitive areas in the past. So to answer your question - probably not.
- avar 10y ago
  So using a microwave but always using the timer or stop button is fine?
  - gambiting 10y ago
    Sure, but I guess one wouldn't be allowed in anyway.
- gambiting 10y ago
  I really have no idea why I got downvoted couple times - what I said is perfectly true: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-oven-caused-mystery-signal-plaguing-radio-telescope-for-17-years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov... Edit: and now downvotes on this post, despite containing nothing else but a link. Would anyone care to explain what is going on?
  - tlrobinson 10y ago
    I can't speak to why people downvoted the first post (I upvoted it), but it's generally frowned upon to complain about people downvoting you. > Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- walrus01 10y ago
  I don't know where you got this idea, the NRQZ encompasses a huge area and people most definitely do have microwave ovens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q... You think that nobody in a city the size of Harrisonburg VA has a microwave? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisonburg,_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisonburg,_Virginia It's within a 1 mile radius of the radio astronomy dish that petrol engined cars (spark plugs) and emitters like microwaves are banned. You can install licensed point to point microwave radio and VHF/UHF radio systems, etc in the NRQZ, you just need to go through a coordination process. https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/interference-protection/nrqz https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/interference-protect...
  - gambiting 10y ago
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-oven-caused-mystery-signal-plaguing-radio-telescope-for-17-years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748758
ryanlol 10y ago
If you did it properly, there's no way they could catch you so in practice the answer is probably yes. EDIT: Looks like anything goes if it doesn't cause unacceptable levels of noise http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-wifi-in-the-green-bank-wv-quiet-zone/ http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-wifi-in-the-green-bank-wv...

Microwaves are not allowed, because for the fraction of a second between you opening the door and the generator switching off there is always a tiny leakage of microwave energy - and it has actually set off radars in sensitive areas in the past. So to answer your question - probably not.

avar 10y ago
So using a microwave but always using the timer or stop button is fine?
- gambiting 10y ago
  Sure, but I guess one wouldn't be allowed in anyway.
gambiting 10y ago
I really have no idea why I got downvoted couple times - what I said is perfectly true: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-oven-caused-mystery-signal-plaguing-radio-telescope-for-17-years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov... Edit: and now downvotes on this post, despite containing nothing else but a link. Would anyone care to explain what is going on?
- tlrobinson 10y ago
  I can't speak to why people downvoted the first post (I upvoted it), but it's generally frowned upon to complain about people downvoting you. > Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
walrus01 10y ago
I don't know where you got this idea, the NRQZ encompasses a huge area and people most definitely do have microwave ovens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q... You think that nobody in a city the size of Harrisonburg VA has a microwave? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisonburg,_Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrisonburg,_Virginia It's within a 1 mile radius of the radio astronomy dish that petrol engined cars (spark plugs) and emitters like microwaves are banned. You can install licensed point to point microwave radio and VHF/UHF radio systems, etc in the NRQZ, you just need to go through a coordination process. https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/interference-protection/nrqz https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/gbt/interference-protect...
- gambiting 10y ago
  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-oven-caused-mystery-signal-plaguing-radio-telescope-for-17-years https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748758

ryanlol 10y ago

If you did it properly, there's no way they could catch you so in practice the answer is probably yes. EDIT: Looks like anything goes if it doesn't cause unacceptable levels of noise http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-wifi-in-the-green-bank-wv-quiet-zone/ http://fusion.net/story/243321/wtf-wifi-in-the-green-bank-wv...