I built our house with ICFs (insulated concrete forms) and put rebar in
every cell (12 inch on center), and every stick of rebar in the walls
ties to the rebar in the footings. Together with the stucco mesh, I
live in a really good Faraday shielded enclosure and had crappy cell
phone coverage until I set my Moto G6 Play ($200 a couple of years ago)
smartphone to WiFi priority. It works fine inside the house now, and
T-Mobile has an unlimited usage (including unlimited data) $50 per month
plan for seniors.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/10/2019 5:19 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 12/10/2019 3:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
I have a Dead Zone inside my house.
I live in a stucco clad house with the stucco laid on wire mesh - it
is an effective Faraday shield. We do not have good cell phone
reception inside the house
Thanks to the "tin-hat brigade, we have an even worse situation here
in the Santa Cruz Mountains -- no cell coverage at all. For years,
this kept me from a smart phone, but I now know this was a very bad
decision. Many reasons why, but mainly that they work for internet
access on WiFi, they function as a pretty nice "ad hoc" camera, while
on the road (and waiting in a doctor's office) I have access to news
outlets of my choice via my cell data plan or the office's guest WiFi.
We buy our cell service from Page Plus Cellular, a third party company
reselling Verizon service at monthly Pay As You Go rates for the
amount of data that we need. For us, 2GB/month is more than we're
likely to need except when traveling, at a cost of about
$30/phone/month. Accounts are flexible, so it's no big thing to buy
more data in months we might be traveling. The Motorola phones we
bought about three years ago cost us about $350 each.
73, Jim K9YC
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