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How new is the building, windows?

Posted by cfraser (A) on March 16, 2016 at 13:13:34

In Reply to: RE: Horrors! Worse reception! Need Indoor FM Antenna posted by 6bq5 on March 16, 2016 at 09:20:36:

Any chance the windows are metallized? If so, nothing you do yourself in your apartment will work, you need an outdoor antenna, or to use cable.

Windows are often metallized now to reduce A/C costs, they reflect the sun more. Typically gold, only a few molecules [edit: I guess that would be atoms...] thick, you can see through it, but it's effectively a solid wall to RF.

Just a thought...you'll know the answer by the "style" of your building. :)

[At my old workplace, you couldn't really even visually tell the windows have gold in them, no radio or cell reception. This also helps enforce security, quite stringent, where all cell traffic has to go through the (monitored) interior system, none "direct".]

Edits: 03/16/16 03/16/16

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