Cell Phone Booster with a twist
Hi all Recently purchased a like-new 3G Wilson booster at a great price and I'm very happy with its operation. MY question revolves around signal loss. At the moment, I can raise the antenna so that ...
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To address a few comments:
1) there should be no real difference between units, the wattage of the units are controlled by FCC and I believe all the ones I have seen run at the max allowable, so there should be no real difference. Antenna and location are really the only factor in signal strength difference on these units.
2) as pointed out by Fisherman about my comments (that I failed to mention), any improvement would be minimal or even neagative by adding only 10 feet. You are going to loose gain by adding cable length in most cases. It would require an extremely unique situation to gain back 5db of loss just by raising it 10 feet. Nine times out of 10 you will likely be worse off. If increasing the height is a serious consideration, do as I mentioned and get a single continuous custom cable using rg-58 at double the length of the current one. If you go to RG-58 and only double the current length, the better cable will almost equally offset the gain lost by doubling of the length. But keep in mind that in almost all situations the cost will not be worth the benefit.
BTW the Wilson trucker antenna mentioned is about as good an option as you are going to find, it is Omni directional, the spokes are supposed to act as a ground plane (which the regular magnetic ones do not have as they rely on your roof to be a ground plane and the gain is about as high (real world) as you can get without heroic efforts.
1) there should be no real difference between units, the wattage of the units are controlled by FCC and I believe all the ones I have seen run at the max allowable, so there should be no real difference. Antenna and location are really the only factor in signal strength difference on these units.
2) as pointed out by Fisherman about my comments (that I failed to mention), any improvement would be minimal or even neagative by adding only 10 feet. You are going to loose gain by adding cable length in most cases. It would require an extremely unique situation to gain back 5db of loss just by raising it 10 feet. Nine times out of 10 you will likely be worse off. If increasing the height is a serious consideration, do as I mentioned and get a single continuous custom cable using rg-58 at double the length of the current one. If you go to RG-58 and only double the current length, the better cable will almost equally offset the gain lost by doubling of the length. But keep in mind that in almost all situations the cost will not be worth the benefit.
BTW the Wilson trucker antenna mentioned is about as good an option as you are going to find, it is Omni directional, the spokes are supposed to act as a ground plane (which the regular magnetic ones do not have as they rely on your roof to be a ground plane and the gain is about as high (real world) as you can get without heroic efforts.
