As a retired architect, I should perhaps mention some problems anyone will have with any type of radio reception inside a building.
Wood construction is best for reception, but there are things included in the average wood frame house that will block reception, such as old fashion metal plumbing lines, and metal heating and air conditioning ducts. Stay clear of bathrooms, and keep them out of your line of sight, if you live in an older house. Toilets and tubs of better quality are steel, with enamal coatings. Some older houses, the better built ones, have plaster walls and ceilings instead of drywall, these may offer some reduction, but if you happen to have an older house where plaster was applied to metal lath, then you might as well give up and buy some wire. Also, most older stucco houses used metal lath, so this would reduced radio reception coming through their exterior walls. Finally, if you are in a stell framed building, the steel beams and columns will play hell with reception. Most well built commercial buildings are steel frame or reinforced concrete, which is just as bad as steel. And don't forget that some houses have metal roofs. Neal Hammon Ky Architectual registration 345. _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting is September 26. Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
