Painting Radome

[Curt Sprenger]

Paint Additives To Avoid on Radomes
In general, the objective is to provide an electromagnetically transparent coating which will not affect the
radiation properties of the antenna. In order to prevent problems, the paint manufacturer should be

advised to only provide products which do “NOT” contain any electrically conductive or metallic (either
ferrous or non ferrous) materials. Examples of these materials typically used in paints are; graphite,
carbon, red oxide, metallic flakes, etc ...


Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, CA

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:17 AM, contrail Bob <"rhowald@frontiernet.net"> wrote:

 

Goodmoring all, I want to paint the radome used with the satalite system on top of the coach. It's the origional factory white and I would like to paint it to match the A/c's on top. I understand you cannot use a metalic paint or primer, anything else I should consider. Thanks, Bob 99LX..Illinois