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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ...
1) The salesman was the first Sprint employee I've found who was actually able to show me the actual location of antennas. There's one a mile from my home, and 2 others within 5 miles, with no obstructions of any kind. No hills, no tall buildings, just trees and homes. He says this explains nothing because he signal is highly directional. True or false? Probably true. I am an RF engineer (retired) and it makes sense to me that the tower antenna would be designed to have maximum response in the direction of the highway that they're trying to cover. There are solutions to your home location reception problem (external Yagi antenna hooked to an in-house repeater) but it's quite expensive. -- John Richards |
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John Richards wrote: "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... 1) The salesman was the first Sprint employee I've found who was actually able to show me the actual location of antennas. There's one a mile from my home, and 2 others within 5 miles, with no obstructions of any kind. No hills, no tall buildings, just trees and homes. He says this explains nothing because he signal is highly directional. True or false? Probably true. I am an RF engineer (retired) and it makes sense to me that the tower antenna would be designed to have maximum response in the direction of the highway that they're trying to cover. There are solutions to your home location reception problem (external Yagi antenna hooked to an in-house repeater) but it's quite expensive. I've seen some setups that only use two yagi's, one in the home (or business), and the other outside, connected only by cable. No repeater involved. dxAce Michigan USA |
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"dxAce" wrote in message ... John Richards wrote: "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... 1) The salesman was the first Sprint employee I've found who was actually able to show me the actual location of antennas. There's one a mile from my home, and 2 others within 5 miles, with no obstructions of any kind. No hills, no tall buildings, just trees and homes. He says this explains nothing because he signal is highly directional. True or false? Probably true. I am an RF engineer (retired) and it makes sense to me that the tower antenna would be designed to have maximum response in the direction of the highway that they're trying to cover. There are solutions to your home location reception problem (external Yagi antenna hooked to an in-house repeater) but it's quite expensive. I've seen some setups that only use two yagi's, one in the home (or business), and the other outside, connected only by cable. No repeater involved. dxAce Michigan USA And this does what? Somehow redirects the cellular signal into the home??? |
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Doug Kanter wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... John Richards wrote: "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... 1) The salesman was the first Sprint employee I've found who was actually able to show me the actual location of antennas. There's one a mile from my home, and 2 others within 5 miles, with no obstructions of any kind. No hills, no tall buildings, just trees and homes. He says this explains nothing because he signal is highly directional. True or false? Probably true. I am an RF engineer (retired) and it makes sense to me that the tower antenna would be designed to have maximum response in the direction of the highway that they're trying to cover. There are solutions to your home location reception problem (external Yagi antenna hooked to an in-house repeater) but it's quite expensive. I've seen some setups that only use two yagi's, one in the home (or business), and the other outside, connected only by cable. No repeater involved. dxAce Michigan USA And this does what? Somehow redirects the cellular signal into the home??? What would be your best guess??? ;-) I have no idea whether it works or not. dxAce Michigan USA |
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"dxAce" wrote in message ... Doug Kanter wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... John Richards wrote: "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... 1) The salesman was the first Sprint employee I've found who was actually able to show me the actual location of antennas. There's one a mile from my home, and 2 others within 5 miles, with no obstructions of any kind. No hills, no tall buildings, just trees and homes. He says this explains nothing because he signal is highly directional. True or false? Probably true. I am an RF engineer (retired) and it makes sense to me that the tower antenna would be designed to have maximum response in the direction of the highway that they're trying to cover. There are solutions to your home location reception problem (external Yagi antenna hooked to an in-house repeater) but it's quite expensive. I've seen some setups that only use two yagi's, one in the home (or business), and the other outside, connected only by cable. No repeater involved. dxAce Michigan USA And this does what? Somehow redirects the cellular signal into the home??? What would be your best guess??? ;-) I have no idea whether it works or not. Well, not being knowledgable about that kind of antenna, the best guess I could make is that it's sort of like wearing aluminum foil inside your hat. :-) |
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Connecting two antennas back-to-back makes a passive bi-directional
repeater. It's a cheap solution useful where the field strength from each transmitter is high at the antenna which is pointing at it and there is an obstruction between the transmitter and receiver. I used this technique successfully on a 13 mile bi-directional analog video microwave link, with a 1/2 mile dogleg from the top of the hill down into a valley. The hilltop site was unpowered and accessible only with ATV but was a lot cheaper than putting up a 300 ft tower. It should work with cellular telephony as you suggest. The trick is to capture enough energy from each transmitter to overcome the transmission line losses and lay down sufficient signal strength at both receivers. If you can't make it with antenna gain, then you'll have to go with an active repeater. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "dxAce" Newsgroups: alt.cellular.sprintpcs,alt.cellular-phone-tech,rec.radio.shortwave Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 17:28 Subject: Cell Phone Questions - Signal Problems & Audio Quality Doug Kanter wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... John Richards wrote: "Doug Kanter" wrote in message There are solutions to your home location reception problem (external Yagi antenna hooked to an in-house repeater) but it's quite expensive. I've seen some setups that only use two yagi's, one in the home (or business), and the other outside, connected only by cable. No repeater involved. dxAce Michigan USA And this does what? Somehow redirects the cellular signal into the home??? What would be your best guess??? ;-) I have no idea whether it works or not. dxAce Michigan USA |
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