Honestly, do we even care?
I may appear flippant. but microwave ovens can do some damage.
How many PA Testers check those?
I do, and about 1 in 5 fail...
Probably leakage. If the door doesn't seal properly or there's some other fault, you could be warming your cockles from the inside out.Out of interest what do they fail on?
I used to work as a uplink engineer on an SNG truck. On one particularly blustery day, when the usual method of bracing the dish with bungee cords was failing to keep it on point, one of my colleagues offered to go on the roof and steady it by hand. I had to explain that the warm glow he'd get wouldn't be from a job well done...
From memory the amps were about 120W, I can't remember what the gain of the dish and the typical EIRP was though. On really cloudy days, it would be pushed quite hard! (I am using the term engineer very loosely here...!)What kind of power were you pushing out on the uplink?