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Towry
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 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: Best antenna for me? |
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Hi! Just a question. According to the map at Sprint, I live just about 4 1/2 miles from the nearest EVDO. What antenna would be best to pick up the signal from that distance?
I am willing to spend anything under $1000. Yes, that desperate to get out of Wildblows. Thanks for your help!  |
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Michael
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: |
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If you want to send the following:
- address
- or better yet, GoogleEarth Long/Lat (some addresses don't map correctly)
send to support at 3gstore.com, we an look at your address, terrain, how close you are AND if you have a shot at it OR not. If you have a shot, we will tell you, IF you don't have a shot (because of terrain), we will tell you that too.
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Alex
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Towry
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| Alex wrote: | | btw, what evdo device are you using, are you still under 30 day trial, and what computer/operating system are you using? |
Nothing. I'm completely new to this, but before I purchased anything, I wanted to make sure I could even pull in a signal out here.
So I should just email them my address then to the 3gstore support and ask them? I don't think I feel comfortable posting my address here for everyone to see. |
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Walter
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, just email them your address. They'll take good care of you.
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Alex
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| Towry wrote: | | Alex wrote: | | btw, what evdo device are you using, are you still under 30 day trial, and what computer/operating system are you using? |
Nothing. I'm completely new to this, but before I purchased anything, I wanted to make sure I could even pull in a signal out here.
So I should just email them my address then to the 3gstore support and ask them? I don't think I feel comfortable posting my address here for everyone to see. |
answer all the questions mike and i asked about and email to support @3gstore.com
one of us will get to it soon. |
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Michael
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By the way, the exact long/latitude that GoogleEarth provides is actually more help, since the mapping tools by Sprint (and Verizon), are sometimes not 100% accurate at placing the dot where you live.
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Luka
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Michael wrote: | | By the way, the exact long/latitude that GoogleEarth provides is actually more help, since the mapping tools by Sprint (and Verizon), are sometimes not 100% accurate at placing the dot where you live. |
Michael,
Youns did the mapping for me. I sent you the address, etc...
You showed me where the tower nearest to me was supposed to be.
Would it be possible to get the exact longitude/latitude for that tower ? |
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crayoxide
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Joined: 25 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Luka wrote: | | Would it be possible to get the exact longitude/latitude for that tower ? |
www.cellreception.com/towers |
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Luka
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| crayoxide wrote: | | www.cellreception.com/towers |
Thank you Cray.
After almost an hour of frustration, (I am not on broadband yet. Still on dilaup. So it was click, waaaaaaaiiiiiittttt for the map to load, click, wait, click wait, for almost an hour...), I discovered the search is totally useless for me.
They do not have the tower that is nearest to me, in their records.
Thanks anyway.
I hope Michael or Alex will be able to give me the info I need. |
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crayoxide
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Luka wrote: | Thank you Cray.
After almost an hour of frustration, (I am not on broadband yet. Still on dilaup. So it was click, waaaaaaaiiiiiittttt for the map to load, click, wait, click wait, for almost an hour...), I discovered the search is totally useless for me.
They do not have the tower that is nearest to me, in their records.
Thanks anyway.
I hope Michael or Alex will be able to give me the info I need. |
cellreception.com get's it's information from the FCC, so mabey you can try them. This is an older "text" version:
gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/genmen/index.hts
I perfer it as opposed to the current version, but you can decide for yourself. If you know your lat/long you can go here:
gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/genmen/lat_long.hts
and after you plug it in, do a radius search. Drop the "Radio Service" box down and choose: Cellular [CL]
Sorry for not hyperlinking those URL's for ya, but I cannot. For some reason my profile is retard mode and it is disallowed. Go figure ...  |
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crayoxide
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Joined: 25 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Luka wrote: | Thank you Cray.
After almost an hour of frustration, (I am not on broadband yet. Still on dilaup. So it was click, waaaaaaaiiiiiittttt for the map to load, click, wait, click wait, for almost an hour...), I discovered the search is totally useless for me.
They do not have the tower that is nearest to me, in their records.
Thanks anyway.
I hope Michael or Alex will be able to give me the info I need. |
Sorry that you had problems. cellreception.com get's it's info from FCC records, so either you could not find it because of your slow connection or it does not exist.
You can try searchin the FCC website yourself. It has a radius search based upon lat/long and other parameters.
http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/reports7
Sometime the older "text" site is faster. *shrug* YMMV.
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/genmen/index.hts
HTH's |
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crayoxide
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Luka wrote: | | Would it be possible to get the exact longitude/latitude for that tower ? |
http://www.cellreception.com/towers/ |
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crayoxide
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Well .. I dunno where those two post came from, but those were ones that tried to compose and post.
Judging from the hyperlink in one of them .. it would seem retard mode is off.
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Bigdave
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| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| crayoxide wrote: | Well .. I dunno where those two post came from, but those were ones that tried to compose and post.
Judging from the hyperlink in one of them .. it would seem retard mode is off.
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I was wondering what in the world you were doing!! Retard mode is off indeed!!  That's was too funny!!  |
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