Interesting that you mention this. Our club runs two "cabinets" in an elevator room. One time an inspector with the British Columbia Workers Compensation Board had said that positioning radio transmitting equipment into the same room as an elevator controller was against the building code. There had to be some type of steel structure between them. There was no specification of frequency.
He did say that the addendum was added to the code about 10 years ago which would fobid such things, but our installation was grandfathered. He did also mention something about maximum RF field strength allowed in the room, etc. There is also a low power (250w) FM radio transmitter on an adjacent tower which fills our repeater room with more RF than our two repeaters. Not much of an answer, but it has been my experience. Dave Cameron VE7LTD --- In [email protected], "Justin W. Pauler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Everyone... > > I got some news today regarding my repeater and I'm a little > concerned... I think I'm getting the shaft on this deal. > > I signed a lease with a building to place an antenna on the roof and a > repeater and cabinet inside of the elevator room for a said amount of > money. About 6 months ago I completed the install and everything has > been kosher since. > > Today I got a call from the Security manager asking me to meet up with > him and the elevator maintenance man regarding a problem with my > equipment. This meeting was very simple, I was asked to remove my > equipment from the elevator room, not because it is causing problems, > but because it has the potential to cause problems. > > I was told the following things: > > 440 Mhz is "too high" of a frequency to be in an elevator room > > NFPA and the "elevator code" says that nothing can be stored inside > of an elevator room other than equipment directly relating to the operation > of the elevator system > > Even if the unit is "just receiving", it is still building up > "frequency" on the walls > of the room that will cause "bad things" to happen "eventually". > > While normally I would tell this fine maintenance man which door he > could use on his way out, he is pulling rank and telling me that if > the unit stays in the room longer than 1 month, his company will no > longer be able to honor it's service contract with the building. > So.... Sounds like I'm up a creek.... > > The fact still remains though, I've never heard of NFPA specifying > anything about elevator rooms and I've never heard of an "elevator > code" (but that's not saying it isn't out there). I've also been in > plenty of other elevator rooms in which radio frequency equipment was > housed and transmitting sometimes in excess of 10 times my power with > no issues... Why is this becoming an issue with me? > > Any suggestions? Anyone know of a good "waterproof" cabinet that can > go outside? Is that a good idea? Help. > > Justin > > -- > Justin W. Pauler > Baton Rouge, LA > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
