It is a radarange.
We replaced the microwave oven last night. The place we bought the new one from took the old one for a few dollars so the disposal problem is solved. As the title reveals, the new one is an Amana. It'll do. It will take some getting used to, however.
The new one is white, which matches the rest of the kitchen with the exception of the dishwasher. The old one was a sort of matte black. At the store I saw Amana's glossy black and it looked far worse than the glossy white and the only choice was glossy. The display seems to be vacuum fluorescent which seems harder on the eyes, but isn't a big deal on a something I don't look at all that much really.
Now I have to be careful when opening the microwave oven door. This one is a bit lower than old one and will swing right into an empty plate. The old microwave's door would swing over an empty plate. This is something I hadn't even considered last night but discovered this noon. The numeric keys are laid out as two lines of digits instead of in a proper numeric pad. The START button is just a start button. The 'start and cook for a minute'/'add a minute' button is separate. I really hope that was done to get around a patent and is not an intentional design misfeature. I guess I'll find out in about ten years. Overall, I get the impression that whoever did the user interface design didn't know much about good user interface design. Yeah, it gets the basic job done - and stops at that.
There are some good features. The bell is, if left at the default ring (it has a few possibilities, including tunes... oy) is enough to be informative without being irritating. The clock has a daylight savings time setting so that can be switched on and off without having to fully re-set the clock. The set up with the scrolling text and such seemed to me to be a bit much.
I probably won't really notice the differences in a week or two. Right now, though, they seem to jump out at me.