Re: [OT] - Improving indoor mobile phone reception

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'sounds good ... our self-build is very poor for indoor reception
(all the concrete & stone & steel reinforcement, and the kappa /
coated glass, I guess) ... was marginal with the old 'phones, but
quite hopeless with the G3s ... and yet our current (more
conventional) place is fine ...

Chris


On 31 May 2007, at 10:36, Andy Davies wrote:

> My outlaws live in the middle of nowhere and have a box that does
> this.
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> There's what looks like a picocell on the wall that the phone talks
> to and
> then the box on the wall is linked to an aerial on the roof that
> talks to
> the network's tower.
>
> I'll see if I can find out more....
>
> Andy
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> On 31/05/07, alanmiddleton74 <yahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Has anyone seen a way of improving the reception on a mobile phone
>> inside the house?
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>> I wasn't thinking of one of the stick on signal boasters and
realise
>> the rf boosters a illegal in this country.
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>> I was thinking more something like a bluetooth car kit with an
>> external aerial (that could be mounted outside) and that allows
the
>> headset to keep control of the call.
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>> Has anyone seen such a device, my googling hasn't :(
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Alan.
>>
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