The foil table is cheap and easy to try. If it doesn't work, you can always
peel it off. As for the 6db result from earlier, were you outdoors in
inside when you tried that test?

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:

> I used to use galvanizing spray paint to repair stingers that had lost
> their gold stickers, and it worked great for that.  I would clean the
> residue off, mask and spray the circle, and then paint the whole thing
> white.
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:59 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Galvanizing spray paint may not have a good faraday effect due to the
>> small zinc particle size and the lack of electrical connection between
>> particles.  Just a guess.  I would think foil tape would tell you for
>> certain.
>>
>> But the paint may have been just as good.  Never really tested it for
>> that.  I know that eventually the vehicle somehow weathers or evaporates
>> away and allows the zinc to do the proper electrochemistry when applied to
>> steel.
>>
>> *From:* Jeremy
>> *Sent:* Friday, July 27, 2018 10:55 AM
>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] RF Armor for a CPE
>>
>> I have masked the front and painted the backs with galvanizing spray
>> paint, but the difference was not really very noticeable.  I debated trying
>> foil tape, but just gave up frequency reuse on that old UBNT gear.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I would have cost them just a penny or two to have coated the inside of
>>> the enclosure with aluminum deposition or nickel paint (or arc spray zinc)
>>> to have eliminated much of that.
>>>
>>> I wonder what the difference would be to put foil on everything but the
>>> area in the front where the antenna is...
>>>
>>> *From:* Jeremy
>>> *Sent:* Friday, July 27, 2018 10:43 AM
>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] RF Armor for a CPE
>>>
>>> ....so it dropped from hearing at a -30 to a -36.  Still too hot for
>>> them to both be on-channel obviously, since they put out so much noise out
>>> the back.  Obviously a directional antenna like a Powerbeam will be
>>> different.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my experience testing RF armor on a two Nanostations facing opposite
>>>> directions, ten feet apart from each other, each rf armor lowered the noise
>>>> level by 3db.  So both of them lowered the level that they could hear each
>>>> other by 6db.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:26 AM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How effective is RF Armor in reducing interference being received by
>>>>> an SM?  Obviously it depends on which direction it's coming from .
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