Reception in rain?

[hanno]

Does rain affect the reception of the radarbox?

[Team Spirit]

Hi Hanno,

In my experience, it does not affect it but then I do leave my RB indoors 'LOL'

Have you noticed a drop in reception during rain?

Best regards Dave.

[hanno]

I am still trying to compare if there is any difference.

[nortonbeak]

It would be correct to say that UHF propagation is affected by the weather. I find even the difference between a cloudy day and a bright sunny one to be significant.

[jannuh]

ADS-B is even on SHF, agree with Nortonbeak!

[glideslope]

Hi folks,

Interesting post, as RD Box works in Ghz range would heavy rainful affect it, it does my Sky TV service when heavy rain is falling, although to date I have not seen any such event.

glideslope.

[orkney]

hello

We definitely have times when our reception is better or worse than average and it seems we have better range on low humidity days.

Andrew

[radarspotter10]

Hi
My hand held GPS sat nav works at around 1.5ghz and yes the rain does affect it badly when indoors,  and yes it works better on a clear day.
from pat.

ps:
Civilian use signal, broadcast on the L1 frequency (1575.42 MHz), which currently contains the C/A signal used by all current GPS users.