"dxAce" wrote in message
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John Richards wrote:

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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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???

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

"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.
:-)

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