On 12/10/2019 3:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
I have a Dead Zone inside my house.
I live in a stucco clad house with the stucco laid on wire mesh - it is
an effective Faraday shield. We do not have good cell phone reception
inside the house
Thanks to the "tin-hat brigade, we have an even worse situation here in
the Santa Cruz Mountains -- no cell coverage at all. For years, this
kept me from a smart phone, but I now know this was a very bad decision.
Many reasons why, but mainly that they work for internet access on WiFi,
they function as a pretty nice "ad hoc" camera, while on the road (and
waiting in a doctor's office) I have access to news outlets of my choice
via my cell data plan or the office's guest WiFi.
We buy our cell service from Page Plus Cellular, a third party company
reselling Verizon service at monthly Pay As You Go rates for the amount
of data that we need. For us, 2GB/month is more than we're likely to
need except when traveling, at a cost of about $30/phone/month. Accounts
are flexible, so it's no big thing to buy more data in months we might
be traveling. The Motorola phones we bought about three years ago cost
us about $350 each.
73, Jim K9YC
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