locating the tower im affiating with
is there a way to do this? I can see the tower and have 2-3 bars when i should be full scale Is there a RSSI command ?
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Just because you see a tower that does not mean your phone can connect to it... First, it may not even be a tower for your provider or a roaming partner. Second, It may be sectored/directional and may not provide coverage in the direction you are from the tower.
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Cell towers don't provide signal in all directions 😕
There are antennas all around the tower.
There are antennas all around the tower.
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Jayshmay said:
Cell towers don't provide signal in all directions 😕
There are antennas all around the tower.
All modern cell towers are sectored. That's why they're triangles. One points this way, one points that way and one points the other way. Generally, each sector is cut to service a 120-degree segment of the 360-degree circle, so they are quasi-universal.
Several tall buildings in my home town have single cellular arrays mounted on a flat face of the top story of the building. They're not on towers, and they broadcast in only one direction with a coverage angle of between 120 and 150 degrees from the flat face of the building they're mounted too.
However, most arrays like that don't get...
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I notice them 😁
On parking garages, shopping plaza signs, and office rooftops.
On parking garages, shopping plaza signs, and office rooftops.
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I'm taking the detailed course on this material next year, so if WiWavelength chimes in, take his word over mine, but here's my thoughts:
This is generally not possible in CDMA systems, unless you are in a rural area where there is only one tower available capable of processing your call.
Spread spectrum technologies use a soft-handoff model, which mean that two adjacent towers can share the same "block" of spectrum and both towers receive all transmissions from all handsets in range. A CDMA handset is almost always hitting (and using) two or three towers simultaneously. This is the big reason CDMA towers drop fewer calls. Breaking connection to one tower doesn't matter, because redundancy is built-in and always active.
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This is generally not possible in CDMA systems, unless you are in a rural area where there is only one tower available capable of processing your call.
Spread spectrum technologies use a soft-handoff model, which mean that two adjacent towers can share the same "block" of spectrum and both towers receive all transmissions from all handsets in range. A CDMA handset is almost always hitting (and using) two or three towers simultaneously. This is the big reason CDMA towers drop fewer calls. Breaking connection to one tower doesn't matter, because redundancy is built-in and always active.
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Jayshmay said:
Is this hard stuff to learn?
At the really low levels that I try to explain things here, it's not so bad.
But once you get into the real physics of how stuff works- well, let me put it this way:
Lots of students drop out of Electrical Engineering and get Mathematics degrees, because math majors don't need to do as much math as Electrical Engineers do.
Getting an EE degree requires mastering a ridiculous level of post-calculus mathematics and being able to recognize how they apply to real life.
Ask an undergraduate Math student to give you 3 examples where the square root of negative one is actually applied in the real-world, and they're likely to stare at you like a d...
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