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Re: Microwave leaking?

I was thinking about this driving home - its all a matter of ratios

your phone is very sensitive, it can pick up a fairly weak signal from the wall-mount antenna

and your microwave is putting out about 1kW.

Right? ok, if you turned on the microwave and it totally wiped out your phone reception, then the amount of power leaking from the microwave oven would be much greater than the power from the phone system itself.

But you said it only causes some static, which means any power coming from the oven is way less than the power from the phone system itself.

I dont think you have anything to worry about. You are getting more microwave energy off the phone system antenna than you are from stray energy from the microwave oven (which is normal).