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...
 
Correct Jim...leakage! Actually, if you do a really good clean of the door seals they mostly pass second time round. However, if they fail consistently, they have to be replaced. I usually test at 15cm or nearer around the seal...any further away and any leakage is dissipated but may still be nasty, I think...but I am not knowledgeable enough to expand on this.
 
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...
 
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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...

What kind of power were you pushing out on the uplink?
 
What kind of power were you pushing out on the uplink?
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...!)
 
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