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Booster Antennas Vs Cellular Amplifiers?

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thuor

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Join Date: Oct 2006

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11-17-2006, 04:22 PM

Booster antennas just "boost" your signal. Cellular amplifiers are also repeaters that capture, amplify and re-broadcast the signal — FCC approved since they operate in licensed cellular bands. Too much gain isn't necessarily good especially for CDMA (Sprint, Verizon, Alltel) due to the near-far problem.

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thuor; 11-18-2006, 12:56 AM

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