passive reflectors

[Drake Diedrich]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:59:37AM +0800, Chris Hill wrote:
> Hi Drake,
> 
> The main typo was about signal drop versus distance.
> 
> The correct statement is:
> 
> Every time you double the distance, you lose 6dB.
> 

   Yeah.  oops.  Thanks.  A thinko, I'm sure what I meant to say :) : every
time you halve the signal strength you lose 3dB.  Doubling the distance of
course quarters the signal strength (1/r^2).  That makes the
numbers for marginal traffic through the wall harsher as well.

-Drake