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I had an AM TX house that was basically a Faraday cage. It was cement block construction with quarter inch hardware cloth metal screening under the gyproc. This was done to help safeguard against lightning as well as limit the RF getting into things. Yeah I know. Ironic. Cell phones lost service the minute you stepped inside and closed the door even though you could see the tower. Whenever we used HT's to communicate between the tx house and one of the remote towers we had to leave the door open or the signal was very poor even though we were only a few hundred feet apart. Some older houses had aluminum foil in the walls as insulation and getting a portable radio to work was nightmare unless you sat it on a windowsill.

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 540763, member: 39"] I had an AM TX house that was basically a Faraday cage. It was cement block construction with quarter inch hardware cloth metal screening under the gyproc. This was done to help safeguard against lightning as well as limit the RF getting into things. Yeah I know. Ironic. Cell phones lost service the minute you stepped inside and closed the door even though you could see the tower. Whenever we used HT's to communicate between the tx house and one of the remote towers we had to leave the door open or the signal was very poor even though we were only a few hundred feet apart. Some older houses had aluminum foil in the walls as insulation and getting a portable radio to work was nightmare unless you sat it on a windowsill. [/QUOTE]

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