wsmith@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu (11/02/86)
Why do FM radio's get better and then worse reception as you walk around in the room where they are located? Bill Smith ihnp4!uiucdcs!wsmith wsmith@a.cs.uiuc.edu
philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake) (11/07/86)
In article <162900001@uiucdcsb> wsmith@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > > >Why do FM radio's get better and then worse reception as you walk >around in the room where they are located? Basically because FM is normally transmitted at VHF (~ 100 Mhz). So, your body is a significant fraction of the wavelength (~ 3 meters). Moving a conducting body around in a room, where you already have a compilcated standing wave pattern (due to reflections of the radio signal from walls etc) will disturb the standing wave patterns - hnce the signal received by your radio. Philip