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      12-09-2016, 03:48 AM   #103
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Aluminum is not transparent to 315MHz. Please go pick up a textbook.

Aluminum will attenuate the signal and probably detune the antenna to some degree. Will it still work? Maybe. But it's a bad idea.

Yes, plastic, glass, or ceramic would all be better. Wood, too.

You could probably still make it out of aluminum mostly without much impact if you don't cover the antenna.
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