How to turn your microwave oven
into a directed-energy weapon
March 14, 2005
There’s no end to the list of human absurdities,
but this one takes the cake. There’s an American website
where you can find absolutely every possible and imaginable foolishness.
You can even order kits. Here’s the URL, pointed out by Frank Nadaud:
http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/electronic_harassment.html
"Officially," this site presents ways to combat
"Electronic Harassment," meaning "electronic harassment."
But you’ll also find blueprints for countless gadgets allowing you to bombard your neighbors with microwaves, pulsed or not. Today I found, for sale, microwave rifles:
EMP Rifle (Electromagnetic Pulse Rifle, or electromagnetic pulse weapon)
The site noted that only three were left in stock. It seems to be selling fast. The magnetron in the device above produces pulses of 50 kilowatts. Range: 300 meters. Operates at 9.2 gigahertz. Capable of frying electronics remotely, erasing data from hard drives, making mayonnaise swirl, causing cows to abort, etc. It’s clearly stated that, of course, you couldn’t use such a device without first consulting local authorities to verify whether such activities would comply with federal or state laws. There’s probably a country—like the United States or its equivalent—where the constitution grants every citizen the right to own and carry a microwave weapon. In the United States, the issue doesn’t arise, since the constitution imposes no ban on carrying such a device…
Back to homebrew projects. The power of a typical microwave oven easily reaches a kilowatt (900 watts is standard, though some go up to 1200), otherwise you couldn’t cook with it. Microwaves are produced by a klystron (in any case, some "tron"-based device). These waves are channeled through a "waveguide" (they correspond to radar frequencies). Below is a diagram: a chicken is irradiated with a beam expanded in various ways to evenly cover the interior. Plus, there’s a rotating turntable so everything receives uniform radiation. You’ve probably noticed the oven’s window is "grilled." This is a kind of miniature Faraday cage, and the mesh, tuned to the wavelength used, ensures that radiation remains confined inside the chamber. You’ll also notice the oven stops immediately when you open the door.
Microwave Oven
It’s inherently extremely easy to dismantle an old microwave oven and redirect the beam using a "horn." At this frequency, these waves reflect like light. A flat metal surface behaves like a mirror toward them. Below is the modified oven:
Modified Microwave Oven
And here’s the setup suggested on the aforementioned website.
Translation: Here, a microwave oven has been converted into a directed-energy weapon.
Of course, this is the weapon a malicious apartment neighbor might have built—not something you yourself could build to harm others. But with such a device, your neighbor could cause you skin diseases, redness, blisters, internal lesions, internal bleeding, trigger or stimulate cancers, induce cataracts, create boiling within your biological fluids. Naturally, you could also disrupt your neighbor’s computer, crash it, or even destroy it through several walls.
Labels: One oven has been converted into a weapon, with an output power of 800 watts.
As the beam passes through successive walls, its power diminishes,
but it remains hazardous to health. Prolonged exposure can be harmful.
The danger increases if these microwaves are pulsed at very low frequencies (a few hertz). This can be easily achieved by mechanically rotating a shutter at the beam’s exit. Effects on brain waves and DNA (hence cancers, etc.). For information, the first experiments were conducted by the Russians on American embassy staff in Moscow, at a distance. You can also use these microwave beams to create auditory, visual, or even olfactory hallucinations. Believing themselves to be hallucinating, people may then think they’re losing their minds. Perfect for reclaiming a neighbor’s apartment, for example.
The army and police possess such "radar guns," whose power reaches three megawatts, capable of killing individuals at a distance or burning out their brains. I refer you to the catalog—it’s positively fascinating. Below are systems the Americans are planning to use very soon to create "maximum pain," but in a "non-lethal" way.
Labels: Intolerable suffering, but minimal damage (portable models exist for "intensive interrogation" sessions).
These systems produce unbearable burning sensations—but without actually burning the skin. They might be used to disperse crowds or create impassable barriers. 1 - Electrons are accelerated in a vacuum chamber, producing the radiation. 2 - A mirror directs the beam. 3 - These waves penetrate only half a tenth of a millimeter deep, but heat the water in the skin to 130°C. Nerve sensors perceive this as a burn. 4 - The "target" flees.
I personally used, about twenty years ago, when I had set up a makeshift lab at 9 Aude Street in Aix-en-Provence (where I still managed to achieve certain MHD results presented at international conferences, such as the one in Moscow in 1983), a low-power microwave weapon against one of my neighbors, a very unpleasant restaurateur who habitually played his television at full volume with all windows open. After a failed negotiation attempt, I resorted to action using a simple Ruhmkorff coil. Frequency: 1 megahertz. Effects at a distance of several tens of meters: creating interference on a TV screen. Whenever my neighbor turned up the volume, I disrupted his reception. He’d then get up and bang on the set, and I’d immediately stop transmitting. But as soon as he returned to his chair—visible to me through my window (I was in a room directly opposite his living room, but in darkness)—I’d immediately resume transmission. The situation became comical when he started watching TV with his wife. She also tried improving reception by hitting the set, but her gesture had no effect. The same went for other family members. Over time, the restaurateur eventually convinced himself he had "the right way" to hit the set, and reports gathered from nearby shops showed he had tried to analyze the phenomenon.
I then took the experiment further by cutting off transmission—thus the interference—exactly when he raised his hand to strike the device. Well…