>> Serious suggestion:    Try enclosing in a ferrous metal screen

>> It MUST be iron/steel and not a non ferrous material.

> You may have missed my comment last night that I'd discussed
> with her borrowing a friend's panel van and foiling the windows
> and grounding the whole lot.

FOIL will not do, as per my above comment, unless it's steel foil, 
which we (usually) have not got.

And, grounding is unlikely to be necessary or useful as long as you 
get full ferrous enclosure. Grounding would help electrostatic 
coupling, which this probably isn't.

A van etc is not a good choice as you can easily introduce long thin 
slits which RF just loves to creep through. There are enough solidly 
steel fully enclosed things in the world that seeking one out is 
liable to be worthwhile. An old tin trunk, as used of yore for moving 
house, would suffice. A cabinet type clothes drier (once common, now 
seldom seen) would be ideal. Just watch the door closures, although 
these are usually well overlapped.

As a bonus, if the cabinet drier worked, although I doubt that it 
would, she could use one as an escape haven or even bed !

The Salvation army have an extremely good Op Shop just down from you 
(as I imagine you know)(among the best I've met :-) )(pre-selected 
dumpster diving at only slightly higher price)  and it's just the sort 
of place to have a cabinet drier or a tin trunk.

Worth a try if a solid steel cabinet etc cannot be easily obtained is 
'chicken wire' or similar. Fine mesh best. Making a continuous cage 
with well scrunched together joins would not be overly hard or 
expensive. I may have some I could lend you if you have none.

I suspect that, sadly, none of these solutions are going to work and 
that she is more likely to be dealing with a psychosomatic problem. 
I'd be pleased if it was not so and that there turns out to be a 
bricks ad mortar (or RF and fillings) solution as the alternative can 
be most intractable. These can be exceedingly real - but the product 
of the wonderful and arcane workings of our brains. Even the sanest of 
people can have the strangest problems with selected aspects of their 
brain functions. Coming to terms with such things when you are 
otherwise 103% normal can be a challenge.




        Russell

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