Extending Mobile Service.
Sat 13 Nov, 2010 10:21 pm
Hi,
OK, I have never owned a mobile phone. I have a tech job and like to be uncontactable and live in the real world most other times. I would only be interested in using a mobile to get calls out from fishing/hiking locations (not interested in other features or every day use). My Daughter gave me her old mobile, I paid $2 for a sim so I can check out if it can or can't get service from locations I generally frequent before shelling out for credit.
Anyway, If I decided to really go this way, I would probably get a car kit to extend range and improve my chances while still in the car. I'm thinking that fishing puts me at the bottom of the terrain so very unlikely to get service from there but it would be better if a device in the car could act as a cell. Then by leaving the car on the ridge top, I would have a better chance of getting service via the car cell especially if I arranged a line of sight or close too with my camp site. The car battery could be left on solar charge to maintain it and the cell.
I had heard about someone at Wollongong Uni researching networking mobiles as cells to dynamically extend networks for remote communities.
So I am just wondering if anyone knows if such a car cell device exists or if anything came of that research?
I know about Spot but I just wanted to ask this about mobiles.
Regards,
Ken
OK, I have never owned a mobile phone. I have a tech job and like to be uncontactable and live in the real world most other times. I would only be interested in using a mobile to get calls out from fishing/hiking locations (not interested in other features or every day use). My Daughter gave me her old mobile, I paid $2 for a sim so I can check out if it can or can't get service from locations I generally frequent before shelling out for credit.
Anyway, If I decided to really go this way, I would probably get a car kit to extend range and improve my chances while still in the car. I'm thinking that fishing puts me at the bottom of the terrain so very unlikely to get service from there but it would be better if a device in the car could act as a cell. Then by leaving the car on the ridge top, I would have a better chance of getting service via the car cell especially if I arranged a line of sight or close too with my camp site. The car battery could be left on solar charge to maintain it and the cell.
I had heard about someone at Wollongong Uni researching networking mobiles as cells to dynamically extend networks for remote communities.
So I am just wondering if anyone knows if such a car cell device exists or if anything came of that research?
I know about Spot but I just wanted to ask this about mobiles.
Regards,
Ken
Re: Extending Mobile Service.
Sun 14 Nov, 2010 12:55 pm
I vaguely remember a couple of things along the lines of what you've mentioned.
Someone was using the wireless network capabilities of the mobile phone so they could communicate over short distances when there was no mobile network.
Basically skype type thing.
The other was in theory you could install mobile phone base station software into the device and in theory run your own mobile network.
To do this kind of thing you're going to need a decent smart phone - probably android based for the base station. - and probably quite illegal to setup.
Probably easier just to get a spot.
Someone was using the wireless network capabilities of the mobile phone so they could communicate over short distances when there was no mobile network.
Basically skype type thing.
The other was in theory you could install mobile phone base station software into the device and in theory run your own mobile network.
To do this kind of thing you're going to need a decent smart phone - probably android based for the base station. - and probably quite illegal to setup.
Probably easier just to get a spot.
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