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Re: [TowerTalk] Conductivity of cement

To: "'WA3GIN'" <wa3gin@comcast.net>, "'K4SAV'" <RadioIR@charter.net>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Conductivity of cement
From: "VE6WZ_Steve" <ve6wz@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:39:32 -0600
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"concrete walls" are usually full of re-bar.

> One of our town's local 2m repeaters uses two separate antennas one
for
> transmit and one for receive rather than spend the $1,500 for a
duplexor.
> The penhouse concrete walls provide about 100db attenuation between
the
> two
> antennas during repeater use.  No desense.  Seems like concrete does
> attentuate a bit ;-)
> 


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