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Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
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I just bought a really nice
Celwave PCS Panel Base Antenna that will be going up on my tower.
I alsoi am doing the research on an Bidirectional Amplifier to
boost my PCS signal up to the allowed 3 Watts. It is going to
take that much, as the cellsite is 16 miles away, over water.
Bruce in alaska
The 1900 Mhz PCS power limit is 2W, but that's matters not. PCS tower
antennas are all pointed DOWN to reduce that cell hearing anything over 2
miles away. Look at the panels on the little PCS towers and note the
downward tilt on them. Even at 2W, 1900 Mhz isn't going to make it over a
couple of miles with any reliability. They're counting on that to reduce
the number of cells any one phone occupies to increase revenue-per-square-
mile, the only thing the companies are interested in.
The 3W AMPS (analog) bagphone with a nice 800 Mhz trunk beam antenna works
best. My DB Products 11-element end-mounted little beam gives me about 24
watts ERP, which probably isn't legal, either. (If Rick is watching, he'll
let us know as he's the real expert, here.) I can be way out in the
country and have perfect calls to towers far away, even through the trees.
It doesn't work near as good as my IMTS "Carphone" running 50W on 152Mhz
used to do, but it's more acceptable than a toyphone puts out.
Unfortunately, one of my competitors, also a ham radio operator, was caught
red-handed (the idiot left a message on a customer's answering machine
tape) listening to my business conversations. So, I had to go back to CDMA
to prevent his snooping into my business, trying to ruin it.
There's a lot of really cheap IMTS phones and equipment still laying in
warehouses noone wants. If the commercial boaters in an area had enough
interest and pooled resources, I don't see why they couldn't get one up and
running on a mountaintop somewhere. That thing would normally go out 50-
100 miles, further when temperature inversions happen. After the initial
outlay, the group would have one or just a few landlines to pay for plus a
little maintenance.
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