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🛡Home Security => Home Security General => Topic started by: richard on June 05, 2005, 12:51:37 AM
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When I install the ss13a on a wall it does
not activate the switch. However, when I
remove the ss13a from the wall and hold it in
my hand it works just fine. Is anyone
experiencing a problem with rf range with
these units or am I just overlooking
something. By the way the ss13a is about 20
feet from the receiver when attached to the wall.
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Try as a test moving the antenna on the
tranceiver 90 degrees. That is if verticle
now try horizontal. I have seen a passive
radiator that folks construct that is used
for better range with that switch. I a cm15a
involved?
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I dont think range is the problem. I can see
the transceiver from where the ss13 is
mounted. It just seems that something about
mounting it against the wall greatly reduces
the signal. Because when I remove it from
the wall it works fine from that location.
Puzzeling.
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Could be. I guess any metal near it may
alter the RF transmission pattern or absorbe
the signals.