Take a piece of plastic, water bottle or something. Put it in the microwave for a few seconds. Is it hot? If it is, find something else. Take the "not hot" item and spray some of the paint on it. Let it dry! Put it in the microwave. Did it get hot? If so it has metal in it.
Friendly Regards, Mike Mike Gilchrist Disruptive Technologist Advanced Wireless Express P.O. Box 255 Toledo, IA 52342 239.770.6203 m...@aweiowa.com -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Neal Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 10:20 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Black Paint on Omni Antenna Is there any metallic components to that paint? You can purchase Omni's that are black from the factory. -Kevin On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Matt <lm7...@gmail.com> wrote: > I took some cheap black enamel spray paint and sprayed down an omni > antenna. Thought was to perhaps keep ice off it in winter etc. > Clients all seem to drop by about 5db. Is that normal? > > Matt > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
