My neighbour has an old rust bucket of a pickup truck behind his shed. Its rear end encroaches on my property. The truck bed has holes along the side for a canopy. Since one of these holes was very clearly across my property line, I stuck my broom handle in that and aimed the antenna towards the cell tower. *<\/p>\n
That puts the antenna almost 30′ from the rig and about 7′ from the ground. I knew from my experience with the whip antenna that I had to get as far to the northwest from the rig as I could and stay close to the ground, hence why I thought the truck would be a good antenna holder.<\/p>\n
My RSSI number, the only thing I have to gauge the quality of my signal, dropped from -106 to -96 and has been hovering between -98 and -96. My phone still isn’t working here, but it barely works up the hill with the booster, so that’s fine.<\/p>\n
My mother and I desperately needed to have a voice to voice business meeting so I decided to try Skype. We spoke for 28.5 minutes and only got about 10 seconds of fadeout. Otherwise, the sound was crystal clear and there was almost no lag. Moreover, she was on wifi across the house from her modem, not on ethernet, so the fadeout could have been at her end.<\/p>\n
I have also been able to effortlessly stream Netflix since I moved the antenna to that location. I am so happy! I just need to find something colourful to tie to the antenna wire so that no one gets decapitated walking across that part of my lawn!<\/p>\n
(* my neighbour will likely be happy that someone is putting that truck to good use!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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