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14. Range
The transmission range of the radio signals to the base station is
300 ft. under optimum conditions. This is often described as the “free
field range”.
This ideal arrangement (e.g. base station and outdoor sen-
sor on a smooth, level field without trees, houses etc.) is,
however, never found in practical conditions.
You will normally wish to set up the base station in your home, with the
combination sensor in your garden and additional outdoor sensors, for
example in outbuildings or your garage.
The following can considerably reduce the reception range:
• walls, reinforced steel ceilings
• coated/layered insulation glass panes
• vehicles
• trees, bushes, earth, rocks
• proximity to metal & conductive objects (e.g. radiators)
• proximity to the human body
• broadband disturbances, e.g. in residential area (Cordless tele-
phones, mobile phones, radio headphones, radio loudspeakers,
other radio weather stations, baby monitors etc.)
• proximity to electric motors, transformers, switching power supplies
or computers
• proximity to poorly shielded computers with open panels or other
electrical devices
As the local circumstances are different at every location, we
cannot guarantee a specific reception range.
If your base station is not receiving data from the pool sensor,
combination sensor or any other outdoor sensors (despite fitting
new batteries), reduce the distance between the outdoor sensors
and the base station, and relocate the devices.
Refer to chapter 7 and 13 in these operating instructions.
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