Re: Help getting RF out of AL. box

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:49:00 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello Mike,
>
>>>Tried that near our garage. It rang all right but when I turned around
>>>after picking it up, beep, beep, out of range.
>>
>> Yea, I think that is because the base transmits to the handheld on 915Mhz
>> and the handheld transmits to the base on 5.8Ghz.
>>
>
>Ours transmit spread spectrum on 2.4GHz, set and base. The first one
>from Cincinnati Microwave was the best but it also would cut out.
>
>Some houses around here behave like your boat from an RF point of view.
>The insulation in the walls is aluminum foil backed and tacked on in an
>overlapping fashion.
>
>Regards, Joerg
>
>http://www.analogconsultants.com

My house additionally has wire mesh to hold the stucco. My wireless
pool remote won't work from inside :-(

The antenna inside, coax-thru-wall, antenna outside sounds promising
to me as a passive repeater. I may try that on my garage doors...
with metal doors I presently do better if I remember to press the
button 3-4 houses down the hill from my place.

...Jim Thompson
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