[LINK] Telstra now admits booster useful - $720 useful

[Richard Chirgwin]

Jim -

I'd believe it, since Telstra does exactly this for country 3G broadband 
connections!

RC
On 6/07/12 3:10 PM, Jim Birch wrote:
> On 6 July 2012 14:44, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:
>
>> Telstra offers signal boost - at a price
>>
> We can put in a tower for half a million some time or you can put in a $750
> booster unit now.
>
> My father - who was among other things a bit of a radio radio engineer -
> suggested at one time that you could do the same with a passive system
> comprising a directional roof antenna with a bit of gain and a piece of
> coax.  The phone would work at the end of the coax.  Never actually needed
> to try it.
>
> Jim
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