My father-in-law lives in Northern Idaho completely off-grid. He uses this little device for his home phone:
http://www.coolproductz.com/ You plug your Cell-phone into it and it becomes a little CO for your home. You plug the device into any of your home phone wires (as long as you are not connected to the telco) and then all of the normal handsets plugged into the phone wiring in your house can dial out via the cell phone. My FIL has a yagi attached to his cell-socket to boost the gain to the nearest cell tower, about 18 miles away. We have one in our ambulance so the medics can use a normal wired princess handset while performing patient care. (You would be amazed at how much anxiety a high tech piece of equipment like a cell phone can bring to the average firefighter/Medic!) The neighboring fire district runs a 900Mhz portable phone so they can bring it into homes with them. This device does not support fax or modems from what I can tell. ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Cell Phone Repeaters. I've looked into it. Not done so yet but I keep thinking it would be cool to try something like that with a yagi going back to the main tower and an omni, or even another yagi, for local service. I keep thinking about putting a booster setup like that in my car too. grin I've seen dual band setups. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scottie Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 11:15 PM Subject: [WISPA] OT: Cell Phone Repeaters. > Have any of you guys installed cell phone repeaters for places before? I > have a boat dock that needs Verizon cell phone service repeated but have > no clue to really go about doing it. We have spoke to Wilson Antenna and > they say we need at least a -80dB or so on our handheld cell phone to be > able to repeat it. Just wondering if anyone else has done this before and > what kind of results they have had? TIA. > > Dial-Up Internet service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $9.99/mth. > Check out www.info-ed.com for information. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at > ISPCON ** > ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** > ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** > ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** > ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at > http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
