Cottage Install

[Turkey99]

Hi guys

I just put an antenna up at my cottage. I have no cell signal at all. I bought a cheap solid RF booster and put up a 30 foot antenna. I have a mountain in the way of my antenna. I'm aiming at the side of the mountain. I get good signal when my phone is a foot away from the booster. I bought a better hi boost booster which didn't work at all. Does anybody have any suggestions. Should I angle my antenna upward?

Thanks

 

[ecps92]

Hi guys

I just put an antenna up at my cottage. I have no cell signal at all. I bought a cheap solid RF booster and put up a 30 foot antenna. I have a mountain in the way of my antenna. I'm aiming at the side of the mountain. I get good signal when my phone is a foot away from the booster. I bought a better hi boost booster which didn't work at all. Does anybody have any suggestions. Should I angle my antenna upward?

Thanks

Do you have Internet at the Cottage ?

If so, You may want to reach out to your carrier for options.
Back when I was on Sprint, they sent me my own site, Ran on my power and my internet

 

[Turkey99]

Do you have Internet at the Cottage ?

If so, You may want to reach out to your carrier for options.
Back when I was on Sprint, they sent me my own site, Ran on my power and my internet

I have nothing. It's pretty remote.

 

[jtwalker]

Assuming your goal is to get cell service, I was thinking similar as @ecps92. Your solution would be to use internet to have service for your cell phone.

 

[ecps92]

Assuming your goal is to get cell service, I was thinking similar as @ecps92. Your solution would be to use internet to have service for your cell phone.

The other way, if you have Wifi (Internet) at the Cottage is WiFi Calling too

 

[jtwalker]

The other way, if you have Wifi (Internet) at the Cottage is WiFi Calling too

This is what I was trying to say also. I have no cell service at my house but I have StarLink internet and use my cellphones on WiFi.

 

[Turkey99]

Starlink would be awesome but I'm only up there 10 times a year and I don't think I can move the starlink location to location

 

[ecps92]

This is what I was trying to say also. I have no cell service at my house but I have StarLink internet and use my cellphones on WiFi.

Yes that would work, but what Sprint sent me was a Mini Cellsite.
Put the GPS antenna near a window so It can see the Sat's and then connect it to my router via Cat5

 

[jtwalker]

I have one of those too, from time before Verizon allowed us to use WiFi calling.

 

[mmckenna]

Hi guys

I just put an antenna up at my cottage. I have no cell signal at all. I bought a cheap solid RF booster and put up a 30 foot antenna. I have a mountain in the way of my antenna. I'm aiming at the side of the mountain. I get good signal when my phone is a foot away from the booster. I bought a better hi boost booster which didn't work at all. Does anybody have any suggestions. Should I angle my antenna upward?

Thanks

Tell us more about the installation.
What kind of coax?
What kind of booster?

You may need to try aiming the external antenna in other directions. You might be getting some signal bouncing off the side of the hill, but you may have better luck trying to find another tower, even one farther away.

You need to have appropriate amount of isolation between the outdoor antenna and the indoor antenna. If there isn't enough, the setup can start self oscillating and it will either shut down (if it's a good one) or just wipe everything out (if it's a cheap one). Try moving the indoor part of the setup as far away from windows as you can. Ideally, opposite side of the house from where your outdoor antenna is.

 

[mikewazowski]

Sounds like my place. Bought a booster and mounted the yagi on my tv tower and got nothing. Took my spectrum analyzer up on the roof and swung the yagi around until I could see a signal. Unfortunately by the time the signal gets down to the booster, it's pretty much gone. Too much loss in the supplied coax.

At some point I might upgrade the coax but not having any cell coverage at the cottage is also kind of nice.