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Re: Hurricane Luis in Anguilla / Cellphone Antenna
Assuming your cellphone operates in the 800 MHz range, transmitting with
about 1 W., I think you're out of luck.
With UHF and particularly at low power levels, you just about have to be
line-of-sight to the receiving antenna. Guessing how high up your antenna
might be and how high the receiving antenna could be, I would say you
would be lucky to achieve a range of 20 miles. I'd be astonished at
anything over 50.
Brad
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:24:33 +24000
> From: Vincent Cate <[email protected]>
> Subject: Hurricane Luis in Anguilla / Cellphone Antenna
> To: Steve Roberts <[email protected]>
> cc: Technomads <[email protected]>
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> Hurricane Luis took Anguilla apart. The three utility polls right near my
> house all blew down. My house, computers, etc are all fine.
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> Nobody was killed in Anguilla, but in St Marten (5 miles away) it seems
> there were many people killed. They have a lot of poor people there
> and also a lot of people used to live in boats. More than 1,000 of
> about 1,400 boats sank.
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> They eye went right over Anguilla. For awhile it was calm enough that
> everyone went outside to stretch and say hi to everyone. Overall it
> took about 4 days to pass.
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> It has been nice to have solar pannels, batteries, an interter, etc. I did
> not have a cellphone, but I do now.
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> And now that I have one I am really interested in the directional antenna
> that might let me reach other islands - in particular the US Virgin
> islands where long distance rates are $0.10/min at night with sprint
> instead of the $2/min that we pay here in Anguilla. Does anyone know
> where I can order a directional cellphone antenna (boat antenna) good for
> 100 miles?
>
> -- Vince
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