NTIA Report 94-306 Building Penetration Loss Measurements at 900 MHz, 11.4 GHz, and 28.8 GHz K.C. Allen N. DeMinco J.R. Hoffman Y. Lo P.B. Papazian A we U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Ronald H. Brown, Secretary Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information May 1994CONTENTS PAGE innijJ ong nocddd oa oo0coC Odd b0G5G06 th WIT] Do ooocgdedGDd0d0GdddbddnnGGqq «hy ABSTRACT tele elle ete tye eee ee ee ee eee et 1. INTRODUCTION. we ee ee ee ee ed + DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIMENT . ~~... eee eee 2 2.1 Instrumentation And Calibration ...........2 2.2 Measurement Sites . 2... 2.2 eee eee ee 3. MEASUREMENT PROCEDURE . . 2... ee ee ee eee 7 3.1 Radio Building. 2... ee ee ee ee ee eT 3.2 Private Residence... 1... ee ee ee ee ee 10 3.3 Storeroom With Metal Siding ........---+ 10 4. DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING... .-.-. +++... 13 4.1 Data Collection . 2... ee ee eee eee eee 13 4.2 Data Processing .--- +--+ ++ eee eee eee 13 . DISCUSSION OF RESULTS... 2. ee eee ee ee ee ee 8 6. CONCLUSIONS 2... ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 8B APPENDIX A: PENETRATION LOSS PLOTS FOR ALL MEASUREMENT PATHS A.1 Radio Building Penetration Loss .. ~~... +. + + AL A.2 Private Residence Penetration Loss... ... ~~. A-39 A.3 Storeroom Penetration Loss... 1... 4. + + + AM43 i BE