If the goal is improve SNR on the CPE, wouldn't it be just as well to get a dish with higher gain and higher F/B ratio than to cobble weird stuff together?

I don't mean to say that a cooking pot is any weirder than foil tape, galvanizing spray, tin foil, or "RF armor".  I just mean that at some point the effort we're putting into improving this antenna ought to be offset by getting a better antenna.

-Adam

On 7/30/2018 7:16 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
I have seen a person (not me) zip tie a cooking pot to the rear of a nanobridge, in addition to the rfarmor kit, to cut down on noise from the back side. It worked.


On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:55 AM, Jeremy <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    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]
    <mailto:[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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