How to Boost Cell Phone Reception And Increase Cell Phone Range
If you are frustrated with lost calls and tired of peel and stick gimmicks that claim to boost your phone's range, here is how to boost your phone signal the way professionals such as police and emergency personnel do.
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If you live in a fringe coverage area or rural area you know how frustrating lost calls can be. The reason you loose coverage and get dropped calls is because your tiny cell phone was not designed to transmit through the steel walls of your car, or thick walls of a house, and still make it all the way to a remote cell phone tower that may be as far as thirty miles away. Your phone typically puts out only one third of one watt and its internal antenna, because it is too small, restricts about half of that power.
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The solution is to get a cell phone amplifier to boost your phone's output up to the legal limit of three full watts as approved by the FCC. You might be old enough to remember when the old bag phones would work way out into the countryside, and that is because they put out a full three watts. You have a couple of options as far as attaching the amplifier to your phone.
Normally the unit sits under your dash, or under the seat and plugs into the cigarette lighter. It has a wire that goes to an antenna on the outside of your car and one that goes to the back of your phone where it plugs into a small hole covered with a small rubber plug in the vicinity of the stubby antenna.
The problem is that many new phones do not have this port for an external antenna. -
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The solution that works best is to get an booster that will pick up your phone's signal wirelessly without the need for an extra wire direct to your phone. Models such as Digital Antenna and Wilson make these wireless boosters.
Users will see that their coverage area will nearly double. While there will always be areas out in the country and even in the city where cell phone signals may not reach, a booster, that both boosts the outgoing signal to 3 watts and also boosts the receive signal, will many times allow you to have phone service in these areas.
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Tips & Warnings
If you plan on doing a lot of traveling in the country in a certain part of your state find out what phone carrier is best. Many have no coverage at all off of the beaten path and interstate highways. One good resource to ask it to call a local real estate office in the area you are wondering about and ask what phone service the Realtors use. They will know which service is the best since they depend on their phones.
