[Battlemesh] Antenna paintings

Musti musti at wlan-si.net
Thu Sep 22 12:05:03 UTC 2011


Hi,

we are using standard general purpose color for metals, but the color itself does not have any electromagnetic contents, therefore it cant really affect propagation. It is pretty much the same as putting a radome on the dish.

Regards,
Musti


On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Mitar wrote:

> Hi!
> 
>> Are you sure that painting cannot affect wireless links? As far I know some
>> plumb paintings/stickers can be bad. So, are you using an special painting?
> 
> Why would they affect? They are after the feed. Maybe just unevenness of
> the color application could reflect waves in some other direction. But
> as this link works nicely on 41 km, I doubt that. ;-)
> 
> 
> Mitar



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