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On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:32:03 Dale wrote: |
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> > Dale, do you get good cell phone reception out by you? You can get a |
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> > sprint aircard and a linksys router that has a pcmcia adapter in it to |
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> > split the signal. It's not blazing fast but @ 60/month it's way better |
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> > than dialup. BTW, I'm sure you can do it with providers other than |
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> > Sprint but I've only used the Sprint ones. |
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> Well, I live waaaaaaaaaaay out in the country here. Even the cell |
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> service is not real good. I also live under a hill too. Funny thing |
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> is, the cell tower is only half a mile up the road. |
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ha, that reminds me of a job I used to do in a past life - TVs and TV |
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antennas. |
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At the time the biggest, baddest, newest and most powerful transmitter in the |
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country was right on top of a hill in the middle of the capital city. But in |
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the valley and all the way up the slopes of the next hill then reception was |
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zero, nada, zilch, nothing. I couldn't even see the carrier wave on a |
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spectrum analyser. The reason is simple - the transmitter doesn't the blast |
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the signal in all directions equally, it is focused to cover specific areas. |
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So the customer wonders why he can see the transmitter 1000m away |
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line-of-sight and can't receive from it. |
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Those were tough times. The customer that accepts the technician's explanation |
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of what is going on has not been born yet :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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