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Originally Posted by refractordude
Hello There
What is reasonably priced that I can attach to my cell phone for better reception. Even within a 45 minute drive to the site there is no reception. I have a Walmart TCL T602DL cell phone. Thanks to you all.
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What do you call reasonably priced, and what do you need it to do?
I looked into this recently. I chose solution #1 below.
1. I bought a satcom unit 2 months ago for 4wd touring. My phone has an app that connects to the unit via bluetooth and I can use the app for text messaging, email, to anyone, anywhere, anytime providing the unit has a clear open sky overhead ie not a cave.
It has an emergency one push distress button that will trigger the company running the service to alert emergency services to arrange a rescue to my location.
It also has a GPS position reporting device so that people I select, will know where I am and another one push button that sends a pre-formatted, "I'm ok" message with my GPS position to let selected contacts know I'm ok and active when I'm alone in a remote area. It costs about $300 to buy the unit and then you pay a subscription depending how much messaging you want to do. $25, $52, or $80 per month.
2. If you want full internet broadband, look at a Starlink vehicular setup.
3. In between these two solutions, you can also buy mobile phone signal boosters for cars or houses but there has to be a terrestrial signal to boost. Sounds like your dark sky site may not have a terrestrial mobile service signal from your provider. No booster will help in those circumstances.
hope this helps
Joe
