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Re: [TowerTalk] Faraday Loops???

To: k1ttt@arrl.net, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Faraday Loops???
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 20:08:40 -0800
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At 06:27 PM 11/5/2005, David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
>Now that's a new one on me.  Loops in the walls... well if they are all
>around the room and well bonded to the spg and at all the seams I wouldn't
>think they would cause any problems... of course they may not help much
>either.  With holes the size of a wall they could hardly be called a faraday
>cage, they wouldn't give much shielding from anything except maybe vlf, and
>definitely wouldn't stop lightning.

If the perimeter of the hole is < 1/2 wavelength (or so), then it will 
shield fairly well. The real challenge for building a shielded room would 
not be propagation through holes, but signals carried on wires penetrating 
the shielding wall.

One goal for a moderately widely spaced grid (2 meters/6 ft spacing) would 
be to establish an equipotential surface at the room boundary. 

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