Characteristics of Radio Waves
1. Radio Wave's Directness
As a frequency gets higher, the wave length gets shorter, and the directness and refractiveness increase, It approaches the properties of light.
Also, if there is an obstacle that is hard for the radio wave to pass through, on the other side of this obstacle, the radio wave becomes weak, it refracts and multi-path noise (feedback) occurs.
* Basically, when a wave length is long, the cordless phone's antenna should be long. However, when a wave length is short, the antenna should be also be short, This is why the length of antenna of the 900 MHz cordless phone is shorter than 43/49Mhz cordless phone.
2. Noise Occurrence
When a radio wave is weak, (when the electric signal is small), noise increases. For example, the further the distance between the base unit and the portable unit (inverse proportion to distance squared), the radio wave will become weaker And, at a certain level, the noise (radio wave disturbance). There is also the possibility that the cordless phone may receive interference when operated near a radio or TV station, electric cable, etc.