woodstick
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Our cell phone reception is not great where we are parked in AZ or our camphost park in Alberta, Canada so my question is what boosters can you suggest for better reception? We have a dish for internet so not concerned with internet, just cell phones. We use Tracfone while in the United States, do not have an issue with it in many parts of the States but we are parked in the mountains in AZ so not good reception and Telus while in Alberta and the same problem there, just an issue where we camphost, other areas we travel in we have no problem so thinking a some kind of booster would be a benefit. Thank you for all ideas and/or suggetions.
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joe b.
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When we are in western Colorado, many of the places we enjoy camping also have poor signals. We use AT&T for cell service and air card service. I purchased and mounted an external Wilson antennae, inside the camper mounted a Wilson 3 amp amplifier and then went with a "hard wire" to the phone or air card. Made a major improvement but you still have to be able to receive a signal. I went from having to walk around the campsite at Ridgway State Park to get a signal that was usable for voice calls to showing full "bars" inside the camper using the amp and antennae set up. Other places the signal was just not there or good enough to receive, amplify and use.
The problem I have now is that I have switched over to an Apple iPhone, which doesn not have a plug in for an external antennae. Last summer we used my wife's Motorola Razr phone which does have the plug in port. May have to try one of the "wireless" inside re-broadcast flat panel antennaes as I am addicted to my iphone. LOL
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ddreisbach
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Ditto what joe said.
I've got a Wilson dual-band system from Prime Cellular and love it. Great customer service. You can talk to them about your particular situation.
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Bobbo
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ddreisbach wrote:Ditto what joe said.
I've got a Wilson dual-band system from Prime Cellular and love it. Great customer service. You can talk to them about your particular situation.
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woodstick
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Thank you for the information, we do have signal and have good signal some of the time, the signal tends to come and go, i.e. we pick up the phone to make a call and have no signal, will drop in the middle of a call sometimes and we are told that our conversation is choppy at times. We were thinking a cell phone signal booster might help. We will check out your suggestions.
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I have used smoothtalker for a long time and am happy with them, they also are a Canadian company.
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Kuma
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I use an external Wilson RV antenna, to an amp/booster, then to a small internal antenna I mounted on the ceiling of the slide.
With that set-up I can use my cell phone and USB Broadband Device (Sprint) at the same time...
Both the phone and broadband device talk to the internal antenna, which in turn talks to the amp/booster, then it's out the external antenna... Reverse happens for the incoming data and or calls... Initially it's a little pricy, but it works great! I fulltime, my Sprint plan also includes national roaming (on Verizon since Sprint and Verizon use the same protocols) and I've yet to be someplace where I couldn't get connectivity, and 90-95% of the time it's on the Sprint network...
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We are on a kinda tight budget, but we were at a camp site where they were closing out all there wilson antennas. I bought an esternal antenna(magnetic mount), and the adapter for my razr for about $16. They had already sold out of all the amplifiers.
I could not belive how much just an antenna helped while inside our pickup. Most times it adds 2 bars, sometimes 1 bar.
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wa8yxm
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I use the Wilson system
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