How To Get Better Cell Phone Reception Using a Booster and Antenna
Cell phone boosters can help you make calls in places you might not be able to. If you live in a remote area, or travel the back roads a cell phone booster can be very helpful, even a life saver in some cases.
How To Get Better Cell Phone Reception With Boosters
How do cell phone boosters work? Your small cell phone only transmits a small amount of power compared to the large "bag phones" of the past. The output power of a modern cell phone may be less than 200 milliwatts instead of the full legal power of three watts.
This may cause you to have dropped calls when the far away cell tower cannot receive your phone's signal. In addition to the low power output your cell phone's antenna is woefully inadequate. It actually has a negative gain, compared to magnetic mount antennas for your car's roof.
One very simple way to boost your cell phone reception is to use a repeater type amplifier and a magnetic mount antenna on the roof of the vehicle.
The great thing about repeater type boosters is that you no longer need a wire connected to your cell phone and the amplifier. The repeater type cell phone amplifier works by picking up your phone's signal and amplifying it to the full legal limit of three watts output.
Also, the cell phone tower's signal is amplified you get more bars on your phone and fewer dropped calls.
These repeater type boosters can amplify up to five phones at one time and even work with broadband air cards from carriers such as Verizon, Sprint, Alltel and AT&T.
Most phones from the above carriers use both 900 MHZ and 1900 MHZ. It is nearly impossible to know which band the phone is transmitting on at a given time so it is important to choose a dual band amplifier.
Dual band amplifiers, such as those made by Digital Antenna Corporation and Wilson work with either band and can boost your cell phone signal by over 30 decibels.
The proof that these devices work is in the fact that many rural law enforcement agencies and emergency services use them in emergency vehicles.
If you live in a fringe area, or just want to be connected wherever you go, a dual band, repeater type cell phone amplifier is the way to go. For more info on how they work and which cell phone carriers are best for a given geographic area see this article. More About Cell Phone Boosters
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