Preface This user’s manual describes the installation and maintenance of wide band consumer boosters. Please do read user manual carefully before installing and maintaining repeaters. The information in this manual is subject to change without prior notice. 1. Safety Warnings Users must follow the principles below? Repeater should follow system requirements;...
2. Introduction and Reasons for Weak Cellular Signals Cell Phone Signal Booster is a perfect solution for providing improvement of cellular signal reception inside a house, office, restaurant, VIP Room, apartment, building or shopping mall. Generally cell phones cannot pick up or maintain a strong cellular signal due to one of the two following reasons: 1.
Here is the most economic solution for comfortable and stable mobile communication all over house or working place - AnyTone AT400 GSM 900 repeater kit. Benefit from uninterrupted calls, perfect audibility, stable GPRS and EDGE mobile Internet even in its fartherst corners of your place.
5. Repeater system overview A repeater kit includes: • Outdoor Antenna? Outdoor panel or wide band Yaggi is recommended. Function: To pick up outside signals from the base station and send them by cable to the repeater; outdoor antenna also transmits the uplink signals from the repeater back to the base station.
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• Additional indoor antennas: when the building structure is too complicated...
6. Antennas and Cables Setting Up 6.1. Outdoor antenna installation The repeater’s main function is to improve weak RF signals in an area. The formula is: Input power + Gain= Output power. The signal strength from an outdoor antenna directly affects the efficiency of the indoor coverage.
If isolation can’t be achieved due to limited distance, the roof of the building, walls or any other barriers can be used between antennas to increase isolation. Installation of a panel antenna as an outdoor antenna Installation of a wide directional antenna as an outdoor antenna Installation of a Yaggi antenna as an outdoor antenna 6.2.
6.3. Indoor antenna installation Correct antennas types shall be used according to the site conditions and the requirement. 1. Omni antenna (ceiling Omni or whip antenna) shall be installed in the center and radiate all directions. 2. It is better to use a directional panel antenna or Yaggi antenna when the area shape is long and narrow (corridors, long row of houses in two sides, tunnels or elevators or rural open space).
7. Repeater Installation 7.1. Installation requirements 7.1.1. Installation Location Requirements 1. The repeater shall be installed indoor in a cool, dry and ventilated room without erosive gas or smoke, or on a cool and ventilated wall to ensure excellent heat dissipation. 2.
3. In order to prevent water from coming into the mobile phone booster through the cable make a loop in it. 4. Keep the outdoor antenna as far as possible from frequency aerials, high voltage cables, metal nets or transformers. 5.
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7.3. Repeater Settings 7.3.1. Indicator Light Instructions Power on, check ALARM and POWER indicator Power indicator status: Indicator Phenomenon Green DC power is normal Orange Shut off, pls take out power supply and power on again No Light DC power with problem Alarm indication status: Indicator Phenomenon...
7.4. System Test 7.4.1. Check whether the coverage is good 1. Take a test with a mobile phone or a data card (engineering mobile phone is preferred). To test signal level with a cell phone, make use of its engineering mode (Field Test Mode), which is an application available in free access or a phone mode requiring no extra setups.
For maximum precision in signal level testing, switch your cell phone into Field Test Mode and see dB parameter. The closer dB signal level to 0, the better cell phone reception you’ll get. • -105 to -100 = Bad/drop call •...
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- Use the roof of the building to enlarge isolation (Please try to place the outdoor antenna and indoor antenna on different floors). - Use some obstacles (Such as walls). 2. The repeater’s power is on but the phone cannot get connected to the network and still can not communicate.
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8. FAQ 1. Will booster increase the RF radiation? No, it will decrease instead. Every cell phone irradiates heavily being in zones with poor mobile signal as a cell phone is constantly in searching mode. The danger is your cell phone is about 2cm to your body, which makes its usage rather harmful.
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