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coppercone2:

--- Quote from: JimRemington on September 02, 2018, 06:15:48 pm ---No excuse for not testing for microwaves, all you need is a hand held broad band sensor.

Here is my version detecting the leakage from a properly operating microwave oven. Cost me about $0.65 for the microwave diode.



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I am interested in that. Can you post the design?
JimRemington:
That particular detector is a full wave square loop antenna (~2 GHz, lambda/4 = 3.75 cm) with a microwave detector diode, type HSMS-286K, in series with an LED.

Based on http://www.creative-science.org.uk/mobile_LED_simple.html
David Hess:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on September 02, 2018, 04:38:53 pm ---No I mean the whole plausibility of attacking a embassy in poor ass Cuba with high end secret weapons for no discernible reason other then to irritate a few spies and risk a serious international incident that would probably result in heavy handed trade sanctions, confiscation of top secret equipment and people being kidnapped and threatened. It's like starting a mafia war no one wants to do it. I could see it in the 1960's maybe, when there were a ton of wars (with no predictable outcome) going on in South America and they wanted to put nuclear missiles in Cuba. With submarines the weight of nearby missile threats is much less so its not as crazy for now.
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I would say the same thing about Russia conducting assassinations in the UK yet it keeps happening.


--- Quote ---But how would you do this? Put it in a van and risk it getting stopped or investigated? Putting heavy equipment in a nearby building that can get easily broken into and investigated? There would probably be very easy to see suspicious signs of weird sonic transmitters. I mean what are you gonna do, have every traffic cop in the city on your payroll?
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I agree it is dumb and given that there is no direct evidence, mass hysteria is more likely but never underestimate national stupidity.
raptor1956:
Speaking of the "why" aspect probably the most likely in the Cuba situation would be to prevent or deter the US from closer relations with Cuba.  Attack the US embassy in this way and hope the US blames Cuba.  The goal, if this was the strategy, would be to prevent closer relations between the US and Cuba.  The current US admin has already moved to undo some of the easing that took place in the prior admin though I doubt the attack on the embassy played a major role in this change as Cuba has, since the late 50s, always been a political football in the US.

So, without knowing what really happened the fact that brain scans indicate damage suggests something did in fact happen.  This is not likely the work of a disgruntled Cuban intelligence officer bent on attacking the US, where would that person get something capable of doing what appears has in fact happened.  I'm not fully convinced on the microwave idea, but I wouldn't say its impossible either.


Brian
chickenHeadKnob:
The assumption most posters are making is that embassy staff are being attacked at the embassy. This doesn't appear to be what happened. Staff are complaining of symptoms at their residences, hotel rooms at night when they are sleeping. At least from what I read of the Canadian and some of the US victim reports. One would expect the embassy itself  is hardened and not an easy target. As for motive, if you can disrupt diplomatic staff "extracurricular" activities by causing them to experience brain fog and not have your efforts detected, then the risk threshold is low ( or would be perceived as low).
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