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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Nextel / March 2004tower 2 cell
Roughly, how far can a cell phone be away from the tower (in miles) before loosing enough signal strength to make a decant call? Meaning, how far can a cell phone signal reach? It depends on many factors, among those are: cell phone type/maker, power of cell site and antenna sensitivity ( can be different depending on call volume, terrain), obstructions ( buildings, walls, etc. ), air quality ( fog, sunshine, etc., carry signal differently ). Scotty > Roughly, how far can a cell phone be away from the tower (in miles) before > loosing enough signal strength to make a decant call? Meaning, how far can a > cell phone signal reach? > Roughly, how far can a cell phone be away from the tower (in miles) before > loosing enough signal strength to make a decant call? Meaning, how far can a > cell phone signal reach? In addition to what Scott posted...other items are: what band? 800MHz or 1900MHz. How much downtilt on the antennas. Mark Well, since this is a Nextel ng, I would assume 900Mhz. ;-) Bottom line being, it will vary from site to site. Scotty > > Roughly, how far can a cell phone be away from the tower (in miles) before > > loosing enough signal strength to make a decant call? Meaning, how far can a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Mark Thank you all for wasting my time with this question. I believe I used the word " Roughly" as in estimated. Not precise. But thumbs up to Scotty, there is someone who uses there brain when posting. Yes, I am talking 900Mhz If you don't have a number, don't post please. (-: > Roughly, how far can a cell phone be away from the tower (in miles) before > loosing enough signal strength to make a decant call? Meaning, how far can a > cell phone signal reach? > Thank you all for wasting my time with this question. I believe I used the > word " Roughly" as in estimated. Not precise. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > If you don't have a number, don't post please. (-: I guess they didn't make thenselves clear enough- there is no number. There are too many variables (topography, housing density, weather, etc) for there to be a "set in stone" number, or even a rough number, for that matter. BTW- I would lose the juvenile attitude if you really want help. It usually impedes a quick response. > Thank you all for wasting my time with this question. I believe I used the > word " Roughly" as in estimated. Not precise. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > a > > cell phone signal reach? Well NEXTEL is on 800 MHz, not 900 MHz. Not like 100MHz makes that much of a difference and NEXTEL is trying to secure 1.9GHz, so both would be valid issues to your request. With all being said, actually antenna downtilt would affect the distance that the site can hear and talk more than anything else (with equal antenna HAAT). NEXTEL typicially uses 3 degrees, but I have heard of sites using up to 5 degrees depending on the density of the location and the antenna HAAT. I could even get more technical that that being I design this stuff for a living. :-P Doh! Yep, you're right. Dad-gum fat fingers. Too much blood in my coffee system...... ;-) <snip> > Well NEXTEL is on 800 MHz, not 900 MHz. Not like 100MHz makes that > much of a difference and NEXTEL is trying to secure 1.9GHz, so both > would be valid issues to your request. <snip> Scotty i'd say if you in a rural area about 15 miles. I have a ranch in rose city and i know there's service in west branch. I can get service when i'm up on a hill. In a big city like Chicago you probley want to be within a mile from a tower cause of interferance with other radio transmitting devices in the area. As everyone knows though all majors cities are pretty much covered with cellular service. I have a regular customer in Mexico that lives about 20 miles from the texas border and he say that the american towers are amplified along the border and you can go as far as 30 miles into mexico and still have service. We use nationwide direct connect and it comes in pretty clear as long as he's outside. If you're planing on getting nextel and the only service is in neighboring town, there a good chance you won't get a signal indoors. I have setup AMPS ( analog ) sites to go along the highway for around 50 miles at 500Watts. Again, it's going to vary as to where you are and a whole slew of other factors. In the city, for a small pico site goes for about 400 feet and other micro sites to go for half a mile, not because that's ALL they can do, but because they are setup FOR that particular area when they did the area call engineering planning. Where you are is important. Not enough info in original post to answer. Do they want max range in a hypothetical rural situation or what? Never really said. Scotty > i'd say if you in a rural area about 15 miles. I have a ranch in rose city > and i know there's service in west branch. I can get service when i'm up on [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > If you're planing on getting nextel and the only service is in neighboring > town, there a good chance you won't get a signal indoors. > Doh! Yep, you're right. Dad-gum fat fingers. > Too much blood in my coffee system...... ;-) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Scotty Oh I can relate to that...here is an interesting artice on what we have been discussing: http://iwce-mrt.com/ar/radio_base_station_planning/index.htm Mark Yep. That's a whole separate group in itself. Definitely not an easy job. Scotty > > Doh! Yep, you're right. Dad-gum fat fingers. > > Too much blood in my coffee system...... ;-) [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Mark It can vary from less than 1 mile to around 20. Don't get pissed off when someone tells you "it depends" because that is the correct answer. No one can tell you "the range is 5 miles" and say it is gauranteed. I am 1.1 miles from my Nextel tower but I have no service because of a slight hill and lots of trees between me and the tower. So it varies alot. You may be standing right down the road from it and have a weak signal, due to weather and obsticles in the area. > Thank you all for wasting my time with this question. I believe I used the > word " Roughly" as in estimated. Not precise. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >>cell phone signal reach? I was temped to just say "half a mile", if he wanted an answer with an actual number in it, there it is. \sarcasm=on Everything over half a mile is a bonus! ;-) Isn't Nextel great? Look at all of that extra service they are giving you! \sarcasm=off :-) Scotty > It can vary from less than 1 mile to around 20. Don't get pissed off > when someone tells you "it depends" because that is the correct answer. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > > >>cell phone signal reach? |
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