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Old February 6th 04, 06:52 PM
Jimmy
 
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The metal coating is good enough to keep my cell phone from working though I
can see the cell tower from my office window about 1/4 mile away
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"J. Harvey" wrote in message
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"LinkTech"
Glass only starts acting as a lossy medium when over 8 Ghz.


Depends how far over 8 GHz...

Most common glass is reasonably low loss in the 400 to 700 THz
(terahertz, 10^12) 'band'.

;-)

More seriously, 'Low-E' (low emissivity) glass has a thin metal
coating that might make the glass less transparent at RF. I'm not
sure about the magnitude of the effect at RF. It certainly works at
IR.