Many modern buildings are using a coated glass - if you are outside and looking at the building and at certain angles the glass looks a grey or bronze color then you have that coating.
I was working in a building in downtown Los Angeles and the glass men were replacing a broken window. I could stand in the middle of the room and through the window opening see the mountain that the repeater was on and use my HT just fine (TX and RX). An hour later the glass was reinstalled and I was totally out of communications. I asked the glass guys if there was something special about the glass and they said that it was a low-E glass with an additional sunlight reflective coating. Mike WA6ILQ At 03:18 PM 12/5/03 +0000, you wrote: >I agree, it depends on the building. We have a metal-skinned >building 2 miles from a UHF repeater, which is working just fine. It >is very difficult to access this repeater from inside this building, >while the same portable can access the repeater 15-20 miles away >outside. > >I know this answer doesn't directly address the original question, >but the point here is that a perfectly fine repeater can be difficult >to work from inside some buildings, no matter the distance. > >Laryn K8TVZ > > >--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Ralph Mowery" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It all depends on the building. I work at a place that is only >about 3 air > > miles from a 100 watt two meter repeater. If it was not for the >walls I > > could see the repeater antenna. There is nothing wrong with the >repeater > > system. On the second floor on the side near the repeater and only >about 3 > > walls away from the outside I can not hear or access the repeater. >Tried > > several HTs that are known to be working fine. I can access the >repeater > > from atleast 10 air miles away with them. The building has lots of > > stainless steel panels and machinery and other big ammounts of >moter > > control circuitry. I can walk about 30 feet to an outside door and >open it > > and access the repeater just fine on the low power setting and even >300 > > miliwatts one rig puts out. > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
