Jon Goldenbaum at PolyFiber told me that the UV protection element in Smooth
Prime is aluminum oxide. That is the metal. He also said that Smooth Prime
will attenuate VHF radio signals but not block them entirely. Hence, your
results may vary.
Sid Wood KR-2 N6242
Mechanicsville, MD smw...@titan.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Langford [mailto:n5...@hiwaay.net]
Sent: Fri 12/12/2003 7:23 AM
To: KRnet
Cc:
Subject: Re: KR>TurtleDeck Weight
Sid Wood wrote:
>> My VHF antenna hiding under the turtle deck will work just fine
without
the Smooth-Prime metal shielding. Smooth-Prime goes on all my vinyl
ester
and other epoxy surfaces. <<
This reads to me as though you think Smooth Prime has some sort of
"metal
shielding" in its ingredients. While Smooth Prime made in the last few
years DOES have some UV protection built into it (as do almost all
modern
paints and clearcoats), I've never heard from any source that it is
metal
based or will interfere in any way with radio transmission or reception.
If I've misinterpreted your statement, my sincerest apologies, just
wanted
to make sure nobody got the impression that you can't use Smooth Prime
over
an antenna. It's metallic paint that will give antennas real problems.
Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL
N56ML at hiwaay.net
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
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