Redigoogle <redicliff@yahoo.com> wrote in news:689f8e7d-25c9-4668-8b8a-
15a005d270ef@s21g2000prm.googlegroups.com:

> 500 foot tower?
> I am in the boonies.
> There are some big towers on the mountain ridges.
> On the other hand, Verizon reports cell locations in two nearby
> "towns" and I don't think there is even a 100 foot tower in those
> areas. Could the change you suggest be a factor in the problem I'm
> reporting?
>

You're never going to have good sellphone service in the boonies.

1 - Verizon doesn't want to waste money on rural coverage when it's much
more profitable in the cities.

2 - In mountains, you'd need a cell or at least a repeater every time you
can't see the tower, directly, to overcome that nasty multipath problem
they don't ever want you to talk about.

3 - We've turned down the phone's power so far and eliminated all the
external antenna connections, making the antennas more and more
inefficient to make the glitzy girls happy until, even in flat country,
the phones won't radiate a signal bigger than the noise from the sun more
than a mile or two. In the mountains, you're lucky if it works 2 miles
from the tower, ESPECIALLY on 1900 Mhz....where propagation and
attenuation is MUCH worse. (Notice how much better VHF TV signals on low
frequencies work in the mountains than UHF TV signals with so many ghosts
caused by multipath interference you can hardly make out the analog
picture.)

Out in the boonies, what you need is a MOUNTED, POWERFUL AMPS carphone
with a high gain rooftop antenna (the old ones with the spring-looking
phasing section). Those work in the boonies....to the big towers on the
mountaintops.

But, alas, they've all gone, in the name of city profits.

Your only solution is to MOVE....(c;