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Jim_in_VA
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Joined: 09 Apr 2007
Posts: 333
Location: Chesapeake Bay Area, Virginia
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| Does VBB have their own towers or did they co-locate on the Sprint tower? |
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childsj27
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Joined: 18 Aug 2007
Posts: 36
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:58 pm Post subject: I can't believe this |
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Yesterday Iwas reading about a grid antenna and looking at the pictures.
So after awhile I was in the storage room and saw a wire basket from
a printer. It sort of resembled the grid antenna.So I carried it up to
my wilson yagii and just huing it on the pole.
I came back down and checked my signal and it had move from 87to 79
(moto Q)that got me to thinking. So I went back and got the basket and
cut the corners and opened it out ( 32"W by 14"H) reisntalled and my signal moved from 79 to 72 and I gained 1 bar.We don't have EVDO yet
but I understand it will go live very shortly.I am 7 miles from the tower
with 4 bars and 72 signal.
Now looking for a bigger basket.You can probably tell I don't know much
about this. Don't know how to put on a picture.
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Oldbull
EVDO Fledgling
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Posts: 24
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| In my area, Caroline County, they have the antenna placed upon several water towers. Anything other than that I'm not sure about. Check em out at VABB.com, see if they are in your area. |
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dondrm
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Joined: 06 Sep 2007
Posts: 64
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:35 am Post subject: Re: I can't believe this |
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| childsj27 wrote: |
So after awhile I was in the storage room and saw a wire basket from
a printer. It sort of resembled the grid antenna. So I carried it up to
my wilson yagii and just huing it on the pole....I am 7 miles from the tower
with 4 bars and 72 signal.
Now looking for a bigger basket.
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LOVE it, childsj27, thank you for a great story!
Hey Oldbull, well you've certainly got it made now, haven't you! Yeah, don't mind finding the receipt for that panel antenna (I think the key thing I was going on with the 'cheap' idea was your "...only waste about 15 bucks and an afternoon of your time" earlier in this thread--that's my kind of cheap  ). I think the 2.4GHz antenna you're referring to is that Hyperlink grid that's being discussed right now in another thread on this forum. If I could be sure it was 1900Mhz I was going for, I'd be thinking about that one and/or a number of other frequency-specific antennas, but since Verizon insisted it uses both frequencies here for EVDO (??).... Anyway thanks and congrats on your great success. |
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thebordella
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Joined: 12 Mar 2007
Posts: 26
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:06 pm Post subject: Re: I can't believe this |
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| dondrm wrote: | | I think the 2.4GHz antenna you're referring to is that Hyperlink grid that's being discussed right now in another thread on this forum. If I could be sure it was 1900Mhz I was going for |
I'm one who has had great success with the Hyperlink 2.4 antenna, gaining about 20dbm, and making my EVDO performance go from unstable and virtually unusable to very, very good.
You can infer whether you are on Verizon's 1900 or 850 using the service/field test screen of either a Verizon phone (I know the LG's work) or an EVDO modem through the VZAccess software's diagnostic mode. Although it doesn't say outright which freq you are on, look for the channel. There is another thread with charts showing which channel numbers map to which freq. Basically it's pretty easy to figure out. |
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dondrm
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Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: I can't believe this |
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| thebordella wrote: |
You can infer whether you are on Verizon's 1900 or 850 using the service/field test screen of either a Verizon phone (I know the LG's work) or an EVDO modem through the VZAccess software's diagnostic mode. Although it doesn't say outright which freq you are on, look for the channel. There is another thread with charts showing which channel numbers map to which freq. Basically it's pretty easy to figure out. |
Hi thebordella, Yes, that's what I thought, and I put that idea to practice per n6gn's and your comments awhile back in another thread. I found that my LG phone gave a consistent channel 384, and for a while I was assuming the 850 band, but then 1) I wondered if a non-EVDO phone might not be telling me the whole story, and 2) I talked to a tech at Verizon support about it and he insisted that both frequency bands were used for EVDO intermittently--that the towers switched between them. I'm still trying to determine whether he was mistaken or not. In any case, I thought I should at least pick up a cheap modem on eBay and put it in EVDO-only mode and see what it told me. If anybody has any other ideas, I'd certainly love to hear them.  |
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Charlie_r_m
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Joined: 10 Oct 2007
Posts: 8
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Thanks for all the advice. It's been raining like crazy here so I'm just now getting back around to messing with the antenna. I took it down today but ended up not having the other adapter to connect my lmr400 to the antenna. I did get some very odd results while messing around with the antenna. As I said, I took the antenna off the pole and brought it inside the house to mess around with it some. The odd result is when I hooked it up to the laptop it showed DO on the connection manager. I was like huh?? So I figured I'd try connecting. Lo and behold it connected to the DO signal. The signal was as low as 90 with a constant signal below 100. So, wth does it connect with the pos antenna laying on my bed but won't connect on a 30 foot pole or when I move it outside? I'm totally confused at this point. Maybe there's something loose on the antenna. Who knows. Either way, I can't give my bed up to this damn antenna. lol. I'd get cold without my waterbed this winter.
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