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Best Phone for Marginal Signal Area
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| Chull 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal coverage.
Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a marginal area?
At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem better than what I had.
Thanks
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| Douglas C. Neidermeyer 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| "Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not Needed.com> wrote in message
news:mJCRg.47919$uH6.44806@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
> My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal
> coverage.
> Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a marginal area?
> At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem better than what I
> had.
> Thanks
Smart move nitwit. Now you can spend the next 24 months being aggrieved,
whining and complaining about how VZW won't build towers on top of whatever
mountain or remote or swamp island you live on...
Doug
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| Chull 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| Yeah - What else is new? Verizon nor any other provider spends much money
here in New York.
Choice of provider is NOT only a matter of service.
Name me at least Three (3) reasons other than service to choose one provider
over others.
This assignment is due Tuesday, 1st period, 8am.
Can You Hear Me Now? Five Years of Whinning and many, many more to go!
> Smart move nitwit. Now you can spend the next 24 months being aggrieved,
> whining and complaining about how VZW won't build towers on top of
> whatever mountain or remote or swamp island you live on...
>
> Doug
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| VicTek 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
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> Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a marginal area?
> At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem better than what I
> had.
The Motorola e815 is by far the best verizon phone I've used for
signal/reception. I have marginal reception in my home and could not get a
reliable signal using a LG-VX4500, but rarely have a problem with the e815.
I know it's no longer available from verizon, but I expect it can still be
found.
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| Larry 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| "Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not Needed.com> wrote in
news:mJCRg.47919$uH6.44806@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
> Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
> My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal
> coverage. Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a
> marginal area? At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem
> better than what I had. Thanks
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Doesn't matter what phone.....
http://www.cellantenna.com/repeater...ng_repeater.htm
They'll all work great, then....(c;
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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.
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| Mitchell Regenbogen 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| The best I've used in a while is the new Samsung A870. I'm not sure what
you mean by marginal, but the 870 is also tri-mode, which might help you
catch a signal you couldn't otherwise.
"Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not Needed.com> wrote in
news:mJCRg.47919$uH6.44806@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
> Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
> My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal
> coverage. Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a
> marginal area? At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem
> better than what I had. Thanks
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| Larry 2006-09-24, 10:33 pm |
| "Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not Needed.com> wrote in
news:mJCRg.47919$uH6.44806@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
> Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
> My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal
> coverage. Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a
> marginal area? At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem
> better than what I had. Thanks
>
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I also like this idea for at-home connectivity in poorly covered areas:
http://www.cellantenna.com/Dockings...s/dockntalk.htm
You plug your cellphone into this docking station. It charges it and
interconnects it with your wired or wireless house phones left over from
your days when you used to have a landline ripoff company...now dead when
you dumped them.
When you get home, you connect your cellphone to the docking station,
instead of trying to get the damned thing to ring with no signal in your
pocket or on your belt which isn't gonna happen. You put the cellphone
and docking station in a "hot spot" where the cellphone has the best
signal. It sits STILL in this hotspot for good service while you're
home.
You pick up the local wireless handset and tuck IT in your pocket,
instead, any cheap wireless phone will do from Wally World. When your
cellphone rings, your wireless phone rings because its "cell" is inside
the house, like it was when you were on landlines. To call out, you just
use your wireless phone like it was on a landline. The interface handles
the cellphone data to make the call. It even gives you a dialtone on
your house phones like the old data set did for the bagphones.
Now, you only need a working signal in ONE location. If the toyphone's
crappy antenna isn't enough, plug in a nice beam antenna from
cellantenna.com's webpages and POINT it at the damned useless cellsite.
Problem solved for under $200?....service restored?
http://www.cellantenna.com/Antennas/yagi.htm
No $600 repeater necessary and you STILL have wireless phone portability
in the house with this gadget....
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| Chull wrote:
> Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
> My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal coverage.
> Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a marginal area?
> At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem better than what I had.
> Thanks
Look for a Motorola tri-band phone, such as the V325 or V276.
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| The Other Funk 2006-09-25, 10:33 pm |
| Finding the keyboard operational
Chull entered:
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> Yeah - What else is new? Verizon nor any other provider spends much
> money here in New York.
> Choice of provider is NOT only a matter of service.
> Name me at least Three (3) reasons other than service to choose one
> provider over others.
> This assignment is due Tuesday, 1st period, 8am.
> Can You Hear Me Now? Five Years of Whinning and many, many more to go!
Let's see. I have a phone that has a big display, camera / mp3 recorder and
player, and all for $10.95. No obligation, no contract, no early termination
fee. Also no receiver or transmitter. (saves you from those nasty brain
tumors)
If you don't have service at a reliable level, you shouldn't count an a cell
phone. All providers build based on population. If you are in a rural area,
you will probably have poor cell coverage for a long time. I don't
understand why you would drop your wired phone with a certain quality of
service for a two way radio but I guess you have your reasons.
Good luck
Bob
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| The Other Funk 2006-09-25, 10:33 pm |
| Finding the keyboard operational
Larry entered:
> "Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not Needed.com> wrote in
> news:mJCRg.47919$uH6.44806@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
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> Doesn't matter what phone.....
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> http://www.cellantenna.com/repeater...ng_repeater.htm
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> They'll all work great, then....(c;
Larry, do you use their products? I am curious about the legalities of
transmitting a signal on a band licensed to someone else. I did look around
on CellAntenna's site but I didn't see that addressed.
Bob
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Coffee worth staying up for - NY Times
www.moondoggiecoffee.com
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| Larry 2006-09-25, 10:33 pm |
| "The Other Funk" <bobbie@moondoggie.com> wrote in
news:Y_ZRg.2418$Kw1.981@trnddc05:
> Larry, do you use their products? I am curious about the legalities
> of transmitting a signal on a band licensed to someone else. I did
> look around on CellAntenna's site but I didn't see that addressed.
> Bob
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It's perfectly legal and FCC approved....and it says that.
I have the DA4000 in my stepvan service truck I do my electronics work
in. I have a cable to plug into my V60i toyphone. The DA4000 puts out a
legal 3W on 800 Mhz and 2W on 1900 Mhz with some really nice builtin
duplexers and separate amp modules from the microwave biz. It's amazing
they can make it for $200, now. I paid double that when I got mine.
Mobile in the boondocks, the only time I run it ashore, the DA4000 drives
a 7 db colinear on top of the truck. If that doesn't work at the church
way out in the country, I have an 11-element UHF yagi, a DB Products
paging antenna, that gives me a nice 12 db gain I can point at whatever
cell I can find out there, about 24 watts ERP, on top of a 25' tall alum.
pool cleaning pole that telescopes.
Sure beats NO SIGNAL when you just gotta check on parts availability and
prices way out there.
25 miles offshore on a sailboat, we haul the beam up on a lanyard and
sort of point it towards shore as best we can. That works with the
DA4000, too, when all the other phones are LONG dead out there.
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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.
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| The Other Funk 2006-09-25, 10:33 pm |
| Finding the keyboard operational
Larry entered:
> "The Other Funk" <bobbie@moondoggie.com> wrote in
> news:Y_ZRg.2418$Kw1.981@trnddc05:
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> It's perfectly legal and FCC approved....and it says that.
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> 25 miles offshore on a sailboat, we haul the beam up on a lanyard and
> sort of point it towards shore as best we can. That works with the
> DA4000, too, when all the other phones are LONG dead out there.
FCC approved and legal are two different things. I haven't been able to
find anything one way or the other. I can build an FCC approved transmitter
but I can't legally transmit on 102.7 MHz.
And damn you Larry. You are making me long for my 26 footer and an offshore
breeze.
Bob
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| "The Other Funk" <bobbie@moondoggie.com> wrote in
news:JK%Rg.10479$8O1.4329@trnddc04:
> And damn you Larry. You are making me long for my 26 footer and an
> offshore breeze.
> Bob
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Oh, sorry....(c;
One of my buddies is living aboard his OutIsland 41 in St Pete while
outfitting it for the big splash, soon. He's like a kid in a candy shop
when I call him on Skype....(c;
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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.
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| Ellery Davies 2006-10-17, 4:33 am |
| 16-Oct-2006, From "Ellery Davies" Ellery (at) StarBus (dot) com
Nobody, but NOBODY can pull in a signal like a Motorola CDMA flip with an
external antenna.
Three really sensitive models: v60i, v710, E815.
No other manufacturer even comes close to this. So what is at the other end
of the spectrum? Samsung! Especially the SCH-a990 with no external antenna.
Kids: Can you say "NO SIGNAL?!"
Do all phone with no external antenna fail to receive and send calls when
you walk under a tree or enter a parking garage. Thankfully No! The new
MotoKrzr K1m is diminutive and has no visible antenna. Not even a stub. It
gets very good reception almost anywhere (though not quite as good as the
v710 and E815. On a scale of 0-10 where 0 is dead and 10 is a phone that
operates 45 miles from the nearest tower even with obstructions, I would
venture this assessment:
Moto v710/E815 10
MotoKrzr K1m 8
Most brands 7
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Samsung SCH-a990 0.7
"Chull" <chull001@rochester.rr.Not Needed.com> wrote in message
news:mJCRg.47919$uH6.44806@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Well- I 'Joined Up' again.
> My Cell is my only phone and I live in an area with very marginal
> coverage.
> Anyone suggest the best phone Verizon has for use in a marginal area?
> At the moment I have the Nokia 6215i which does seem better than what I
> had.
> Thanks
>
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| none@none.net 2006-10-17, 7:33 am |
| Add the Nokia 6256. It is fantastic. Will do CDMA and analog. Have
only been without signal twice. In NYC subway and deep gorge in West
Virginia.
none
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:05:53 -0400, "Ellery Davies"
<See-Reply-Addr@Nospam.com> wrote:
>16-Oct-2006, From "Ellery Davies" Ellery (at) StarBus (dot) com
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>Nobody, but NOBODY can pull in a signal like a Motorola CDMA flip with an
>external antenna.
>
>Three really sensitive models: v60i, v710, E815.
>
>No other manufacturer even comes close to this. So what is at the other end
>of the spectrum? Samsung! Especially the SCH-a990 with no external antenna.
>Kids: Can you say "NO SIGNAL?!"
>
>Do all phone with no external antenna fail to receive and send calls when
>you walk under a tree or enter a parking garage. Thankfully No! The new
>MotoKrzr K1m is diminutive and has no visible antenna. Not even a stub. It
>gets very good reception almost anywhere (though not quite as good as the
>v710 and E815. On a scale of 0-10 where 0 is dead and 10 is a phone that
>operates 45 miles from the nearest tower even with obstructions, I would
>venture this assessment:
>
> Moto v710/E815 10
> MotoKrzr K1m 8
> Most brands 7
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> Samsung SCH-a990 0.7
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