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| Subject: | Re: Hanger Cell Reception |
Hey Les.
Unfortunately, cell repeaters are about the only way to go, and I agree that most
of the ones I've seen seem a lot pricier than they need to be.
In my case, I got lucky - I have a friend who brought Internet out to my hangar
for an ADS-B data feed (he's one of the guys who supply sites like Flight Aware
with tracking data). And my wireless provider (Rogers) supports cell calls
over Wifi, so it works rather well. But before we got the Internet out there,
I had to pretty much go outside if I wanted to take or make a cell call.
Dan
> On 2017-Mar-10, at 3:36 PM, kearney <kearney@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> I am finding that cell reception is my hanger is a bit spotty. My question is
for the technical mavens. Is there any simple / inexpensive way to improve cell
reception in a metal building? I see there are repeaters but they seem very
pricey for what I want / need.
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> Cheers
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> Les
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Dan Charrois
President, Syzygy Research & Technology
Phone: 780-961-2213
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| Subject: | Re: Hanger Cell Reception |
Hey Les,
Weirdly, I live too close to a cell tower and have the "umbrella" effect. I
got this unit
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GSM-900MHz-Mobile-Cell-Phone-Signal-Booster-Repeater-Amplifier-Yagi-AntennaUB-/122270271447?hash=item1c77e047d7:g:rcUAAOSwI-BWJ0OT
At the time, it was cheaper cuz it came directly from China, and I had to
take it apart and find a cold solder joint, but it's worked fine for years
now. I liked it because it has the indoor and outdoor antennas included. I
actually mounted the receiving antenna outdoors on the chimney and it was
pretty sensitive to direction ... for best signal strength, I ended up
aiming it way above the tower. Indoors I had to trial and error position
the transmit antenna till I got the signal to the phone to max. I get max
bars standing next to the unit and it drops off the farther away you get,
but no noticeable dropping off of actual phone function throughout the
house.
Later, - Lew
-----Original Message-----
> On 2017-Mar-10, at 3:36 PM, kearney <kearney@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>
> Hi
>
> I am finding that cell reception is my hanger is a bit spotty. My question
> is for the technical mavens. Is there any simple / inexpensive way to
> improve cell reception in a metal building? I see there are repeaters but
> they seem very pricey for what I want / need.
>
> Cheers
>
> Les
>
> RV10 C-GCWZ flying
> RV10 C-GROK some assembly required
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=467155#467155
>
>
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Dan Charrois
President, Syzygy Research & Technology
Phone: 780-961-2213
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| Subject: | Re: Hanger Cell Reception |
Oh yeah, My wife got an iPhone 6 (mine is a 5) and it didn't like the
repeater signal frequency (or so the Apple folks told her) and they told her
to activate the wi-fi deal like Dan did. That works fine for her.
-----Original Message-----
> On 2017-Mar-10, at 3:36 PM, kearney <kearney@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am finding that cell reception is my hanger is a bit spotty. My question
> is for the technical mavens. Is there any simple / inexpensive way to
> improve cell reception in a metal building? I see there are repeaters but
> they seem very pricey for what I want / need.
>
> Cheers
>
> Les
>
> RV10 C-GCWZ flying
> RV10 C-GROK some assembly required
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=467155#467155
>
>
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Dan Charrois
President, Syzygy Research & Technology
Phone: 780-961-2213
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