Clearvoice repeater

I went and bought the Clearvoice repeater and it works. My phone has six
bars down in the basement where I had, at best, 1 bar before. Voice quality
is a whole lot better.

Wife is extremely happy. Best thing? It was the cheapest one I could find.

You do need to find a spot that can get at least 2 bars on your phone
consistently to mount the patch antenna. Fortunately I was able to get 4
bars in one spot inside my garage.

Thanks to whoever told me about repeaters in this group. Sorry I forgot
your handle.

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EOO wrote:
> I went and bought the Clearvoice repeater and it works. My phone has six
> bars down in the basement where I had, at best, 1 bar before. Voice quality
> is a whole lot better.
>
> Wife is extremely happy. Best thing? It was the cheapest one I could find.
>
> You do need to find a spot that can get at least 2 bars on your phone
> consistently to mount the patch antenna. Fortunately I was able to get 4
> bars in one spot inside my garage.
>
> Thanks to whoever told me about repeaters in this group. Sorry I forgot
> your handle.

I ordered one over the weekend and I hope mine works as well. My home
office is in the basement and I often times have dropped calls.

"rayindesmoines" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> EOO wrote:

> I ordered one over the weekend and I hope mine works as well. My home
> office is in the basement and I often times have dropped calls.
>
Be sure to locate the internal antenna as close as possible to the area
where you will be using the phone most.

I did not choose a central location upstairs for the antenna as a matter of
convenience and I do lose the signal at the other end of the
house.

Also, for some reason when I mounted the patch antenna in a horizontal
position facing the tower, I could not get a good signal. I remounted the
antenna inside from the roof of the garage, in vertical position in the same
spot and the signal improved dramatically.

Good luck.

You can lose up to 30 dB when changing from verticle to horzontal
polarization.
Keep it verticle.

Bill

"EOO" <whereeverforever.com> wrote in message
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>
> "rayindesmoines" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> EOO wrote:
>
>> I ordered one over the weekend and I hope mine works as well. My home
>> office is in the basement and I often times have dropped calls.
>>
> Be sure to locate the internal antenna as close as possible to the area
> where you will be using the phone most.
>
> I did not choose a central location upstairs for the antenna as a matter
> of convenience and I do lose the signal at the other end of the
> house.
>
> Also, for some reason when I mounted the patch antenna in a horizontal
> position facing the tower, I could not get a good signal. I remounted the
> antenna inside from the roof of the garage, in vertical position in the
> same spot and the signal improved dramatically.
>
> Good luck.
>

You should also keep your phone vertical. There seem to be many pouches that
hold the phone with the antenna in a horizontal position.


"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> You can lose up to 30 dB when changing from verticle to horzontal
> polarization.
> Keep it verticle.
>
> Bill
>
> "EOO" <whereeverforever.com> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> "rayindesmoines" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> EOO wrote:
>>
>>> I ordered one over the weekend and I hope mine works as well. My home
>>> office is in the basement and I often times have dropped calls.
>>>
>> Be sure to locate the internal antenna as close as possible to the area
>> where you will be using the phone most.
>>
>> I did not choose a central location upstairs for the antenna as a matter
>> of convenience and I do lose the signal at the other end of the
>> house.
>>
>> Also, for some reason when I mounted the patch antenna in a horizontal
>> position facing the tower, I could not get a good signal. I remounted
>> the antenna inside from the roof of the garage, in vertical position in
>> the same spot and the signal improved dramatically.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>
>

I got my Clear Voice repeater yesterday and installed it last night.
It works pretty well, but walls and floors cut the signal
significantly. I needed the help in my basement office and it is
giving me a very strong signal there.

As for the outside antenna, I found that a signal was overloading the
amplifier. I am pretty sure it is from a T-Mobile tower that is very
close and line of sight from my property, so instead of orienting the
antenna towards a Sprint tower, I had to position it in such a way to
null the T-Mobile signal. I was able to point in in such a direction
to get the signal strength back down into the proper operating range.
Since both signals are in the 1900 MHZ band, the amplifier doesn't know
the difference between one and the other and is being swamped by the
stronger one.

I guess that if it weren't for the strong T-Mobile signal, I would be
able to optimize the Sprint signal and it would work even better. All
in all, it is accomplishing my goal.