| Kevin Weaver 2007-03-12, 3:33 pm |
| If they had such a device, then the can you hear me now guy would lose
his job. :)
baumgrenze wrote:
> I am trying to understand why I get such a variable signal (1 tower -
> 5 towers - 1 tower in the same 1-2 minutes) and so many dropped calls
> on my LG VX3200. I'm otherwise very satisfied with the performance of
> the phone and just purchased an extended battery for mine and my
> wife's to extend their working lifetime.
>
> Yesterday I did a bit of experimentation and walked through the
> neighborhood. I saw 5 tower signal strength everywhere I checked. I
> walked across the street to the end of my driveway and the signal
> plummeted to 1 tower and began to fluctuate. This is 20' from the
> nearest part of the house.
>
> As I stood there I thought about how the signal can be seen as
> wavelike. There must be points near the border between two cell towers
> where the competing signals engage in constructive and destructive
> interference. Verizon can claim that they have the space covered with
> a strong signal (which I saw as I walked through the neighborhood) but
> I can experience the drifting of signal strength as a result of 2
> competing cells.
>
> Does this analysis make sense?
>
> If the phone can measure signal strength, it would seem as though it
> would be easy to construct a device which measures signal strength and
> stores it on a flash memory card for download to Excel. Are such
> devices made? It would seem that it would be in Verizon's interest to
> be able to loan such a device to a subscriber to place at various
> points in the service area to gather data on the quality of the
> signal.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks,
>
> baumgrenze
>
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