Excuse the slight topic drift, but I've long wondered why some signals get through tunnels, others seem to do OK in vertical shafts (e.g. lifts) and others disappear altogether. While driving and listening to FM radio (not DAB, as Spain doesn't seem to have it yet!) I lose the signal in road tunnels, yet a mobile phone call continues uninterrupted. Sat Nav continues though sometimes in some kind of reduced functionality (I use Google Maps on my phone, which is set to use phone signal or GPS or both). However, I noticed when travelling in the lift that used to serve my neighbourhood (it ran vertically through a hill from the bottom of our road to the end of a pedestrian tunnel below) that the lift operator's FM radio stayed on all the time, yet my mobile phone signal (analogue until about 2000 then GSM) was completely lost. Can any passing physicists explain?
Edited by Bilboman on 02/09/2019 at 22:47
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