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Antenna Booster Sticker As seen on TV and now one of the worlds largest selling mobile phone and PDA accesssories. Simply stick to the chassis of your phone / PDA (or underneath your battery). It will help increase your phones signal strength in weak areas.
The following information has been reproduced courtesy of Mr M.Tom, Investigative Journalist - Channel 9 (USA) who conducted his own tests on the ‘Antenna Booster Sticker’ in 2001 Do they really work ? We have all seen those commercials recently on television making claims such as "Add a four foot antenna to your phone" and get signal inside tunnels and indoor areas. This test was performed to show my
fact findings on the antenna booster and its functionality with cellular phones. Hopefully, these tests can help you decipher if the antenna booster actually helps increase cell phone reception and signal strength. I have conducted many objective tests on my own with the antenna booster, as well as have other people in other geographic areas do the same. People are always looking for ways to increase their cell phone's signal strength, so volunteers were easy to find.
This is due to the inconsideration of cellular providers that start building out and advertising their service before they are properly ramped up to handle their users with good cell phone reception. They are to blame, and we the consumer are stuck with finding alternate ways of improving and increasing the signal that should have been present at the time we signed our 1 year contracts ! Preparation : I purchased the antenna booster from a few retailers at local stores and online on the Internet. I found that all of the antenna boosters were identical, with the minor exception of a few which the device was the same, but with a little variation in the retail packaging. We (testers) also made logs of signal strength with various phones without the antenna booster installed over a period of time and until a pattern of consistency was found. This is how we established the basis of our correlation and comparison tests. TEST I - Antenna Booster in low signal indoor areas : CONTROL ENVIRONMENT - Various indoor concrete buildings with
no windows within 35 feet of the cellular phone unit. Criteria for these experimental locations include low or null signal without the antenna booster installed. Tests conducted for indoor functionality of the antenna booster spanned over a period of time of no less than a couple of months. The rationale for the time frame is because cellular sites of various service providers may be overloaded at different times
of the day and different days of the week. The few months time frame also rules out the possibility of a cell site being down or under maintenance. TEST II - Antenna Booster - graphical representation of test results : TEST EQUIPMENT - For this, we consulted an Electrical Engineer from the University of Illinois. He basically tested the antenna for frequency strength and interference. He tested various cellular phones before and after the installation of the antenna booster. The test results were then averaged out over a period of time. Those results were then
merged and averaged out between cellular phone models and different cellular providers. This would give a more general and unbiased conclusion on the effectiveness of the antenna booster.
The ultimate question remains: Does the Antenna Booster actually work? Our conclusion from various testimonials and test results would say yes. But the exaggerated claims made by the manufacturers must be taken with a grain of salt. It did almost everything it said it would, just not to the degree that one would have expected if you were to go on their advertising alone. __________________________________________________________
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