thinking about that guy who bought a starlink dish and kept losing signal in cold weather since the dish has a heater to stop it freezing and that meant cats would sit on it
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in reply to @fwankie's post:
... can somebody who understands antenna theory tell us please that that's safe for the cats? is there a cancer risk for the one who's sitting on top of the parabola's focal point? we hope not?
It's a phased array not a parabolic dish, so there's no focal point in the traditional sense. Transmit power only reaches 2-4 watts afaik so probably not harmful for the cats regardless, especially since it's even longer wavelength than WiFi or common cell bands
