Ok, sorry for being ambiguous. Here is what I have:
On one end of my house is my office over the garage which was probably a screened porch at one point many moons ago. The point is that the house is brick and the wall between the aforementioned office and the rest of the house is twice as thick as the interior walls. Probably plaster (like the rest of the house interior) or perhaps dry wall over brick since it was an update to a house built in 1940 something. This is where the PC/AHP (and all plugins) /CM15A is located. The floor is hardwood on a concrete slab. More on this later.
On the other end of the house are the bedrooms (2), with a DX7000 console in the 2nd BDRM. House is about 60 feet across with plaster on metal lath for interior walls...I have done some wall patching over the years and obviously discovered this.
In various places in the garage, basement, house exterior, and first floor living space I have DS10A's (6), LM15A's (4), SH10A (1), MS10A (3), PSH01's (3), PR511's (1 with 2 more in the mail), MS16A's (3), WS467's (4), WS477's (4), and a XPFM unit for a yet to be installed humidity sensing (very cool) exhaust fan for use with a RSS18. Somewhere around here is a partridge in a pear tree but I haven't seen that lately.
I received a X19A/VA11A/VR36A/CM19A "kit" for Xmas, which sorta works but let's just ignore that for the moment.
OK, so there is the most (if not all) of the layout.
The CM15A problem(s) I believe have been strictly RF. I have had some problems with MS10A's of which one is about 20 feet from the CM15A. Most problems have been with DS10A's, e.g., garage windows directly below the CM15A (maybe 10 ft - remember the concrete slab?), and more DS10A's in same BDRM as the DX7000. I know from experimenting with a hand-held DS10A that the DX7000 range is better, i.e., same distance (different direction) the DX7000 works where the CM15A fails. The CM15A sits about 4 ft off the floor on top of the PC tower. The DX7000 sits on a table between 2 and 3 ft off the floor. I am considering the antenna mod's and was reviewing the forum for the SR731 this morning but that unit doesn't appear to have impressed too many in the forum. If it was all that it is cracked-up to be I wouldn't care about the price.
I have reset my DX7000 5+ times to rebuild the zone configuration and deal with my own fubars like walking in front of an active MS10A while attempting to install other sensors. Yep, that was dumb but I figured it out. I have also completely rejuvenated the configuration in AHP a few times and in all of the aforementioned iterations the CM15A RF reliability has been weak. Yes, I would prefer to centrally locate the CM15A and the DX7000 but that simply isn't practical in this house.
Bottom line is that this is a modest house (approx 1800 sq ft) and I didn't expect these types of RF problems based on what I have read in various places.
So.....any suggestions?
FWIW - I proof read this several times so if I screwed up anywhere I can't see it.
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