Mobile Signal Repeaters are often employed where people experience dropped or missed calls in and around their properties. It is often the case that there are black spots in and around buildings where no signal is not good enough to even make a call. Poor signal coverage is also not uncommon in rural areas. The network mobile carriers in these zones provide a minimal or virtually no coverage where population densities don’t make sound economics to invest in extra base stations and towers to improve the signal quality.

Mobile Signal Repeaters – how They Work

Mobile Signal Repeaters are designed to fill this gap. A donor antenna is provided with low loss signal cable which initially catches the mobile carriers poor signal. It improves it and the signal it is then fed to the high sensitivity, high gain signal repeater.

The repeater has a broadband linear amplifier to ensure that all signals are amplified evenly with the minimum noise. The amplified signal is then re-transmitted via internal antennas locally. Standard repeater kits range from just a simple whip or ceiling antenna. For wider coverage multiple antennas can be provided along with with low loss cables and signal splitters.

Mobile Signal Repeaters – Operate in Distinct Frequency Bands

Mobile Repeaters are designed to operate in distinct signal frequency ranges and can be one, two or three band devices. This is because the individual mobile network operators operate in allocated frequency bands which in Europe are 900, 1800 and 2100 Mhz. Normally the most common signals used are GSM 900 which has a broader signal reach and is often used for basic calls and GPRS access to Internet.

Mobile Signal Repeaters – And Your Mobile Service Provider

Your mobile operator may provide 3G for higher speeds for Internet use and these UMTS/3G signals are most often provided by operators on 2100 Mhz. However some operators put these higher speed protocols on both 900 and 1800 Mhz depending on location and carrier because they get wider physical coverage at this frequency. For this reason dual and try band repeaters exist. With a tri-band repeater you will be able to get a service from any band and with any mobile operato independent of your location. But of course you pay more for these devices.

Mobile Signal Repeaters – Beware of Cheap Fakes

There are a number of cheap non-linear and unstable mobile signal repeaters out there which you should avoid because of reliability, instability and interference effects. Many of these devices cannot be regulated and bust into an unstable state where they interfere with the carriers base stations, causing channel blocking and effect other local equipment.

Our repeaters have automatic and manual gain and signal level controls for setting up the repeaters so that feedback between donor and service antennas does not lead to uncontrolled oscillation. Our repeaters have a built in automatic cutoff feature to prevent this and can be easily set up to prevent such issues arising. Our repeaters are additionally CE and RoHS approved.

Mobile Signal Repeaters – Will They Work For Me

It is important to note that it may sometimes not be possible to recover very poor carrier signals because they simply can’t be separated from normal signal noise in a given location. There are ways, with the use of high gain donor antennas and large gain mobile signal repeaters to get results in very poor signal conditions. But sometimes you will have to accept that it may not be possible to get a good result where you are.

Mobile Signal Repeaters – Our New Product Line

We are really pleased with our new range of mobile signal repeaters. For over a year we have negotiated with and sought quality suppliers for these high specification products. Take a look at one popular mobile signal repeater here…

Single Band Mobile Signal Repeater for GSM 900