I would imagine taking apart a microwave oven and pointing the magnetron waveguide into a parabolic dish could give you a decent drone killer - a cheap, compact AC powered 1 kW 2.4 Ghz jammer should do some damage.
Doubt it, but getting a pencil beam is nigh impossible with radio, there's going to be leakage somewhere. Also, you'd have a bunch of physicists asking about how you got a beam that thin.
I haven't actually done the math, but for a parabolic dish which is much larger than the waveguide diameter, shouldn't you get a very narrow beam? Isn't that how microwave uplinks like the Ubiquiti airFibre5 can give you wireless networks at gigabit speeds over hundreds of kilometers?
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I would imagine taking apart a microwave oven and pointing the magnetron waveguide into a parabolic dish could give you a decent drone killer - a cheap, compact AC powered 1 kW 2.4 Ghz jammer should do some damage.
You would have to make sure you don't get in the beam - you could give your self some nasty burn/radiation injuries with that set up
And the FCC would be having a word with you they don't allow civilians to run things that hot you'd be looking at 20-24 dbi
I obviously wouldn't recommend doing this without proper RF safety training and experience.
Regarding the FCC: Assuming a nice narrow pencil-beam aimed at space, would they care much?
Doubt it, but getting a pencil beam is nigh impossible with radio, there's going to be leakage somewhere. Also, you'd have a bunch of physicists asking about how you got a beam that thin.
I haven't actually done the math, but for a parabolic dish which is much larger than the waveguide diameter, shouldn't you get a very narrow beam? Isn't that how microwave uplinks like the Ubiquiti airFibre5 can give you wireless networks at gigabit speeds over hundreds of kilometers?
Running a slightly hot 200mw pcmia card for warflying or war rocketing probably not but I think 1.2kw with a gain of 20 from the antenna they might.