[Elecraft] DZOTA: Dead Zones On The Air

[Jim Brown]

On 12/10/2019 3:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> I have a Dead Zone inside my house.
> I live in a stucco clad house with the stucco laid on wire mesh - it is 
> an effective Faraday shield.  We do not have good cell phone reception 
> inside the house

Thanks to the "tin-hat brigade, we have an even worse situation here in 
the Santa Cruz Mountains -- no cell coverage at all. For years, this 
kept me from a smart phone, but I now know this was a very bad decision. 
Many reasons why, but mainly that they work for internet access on WiFi, 
they function as a pretty nice "ad hoc" camera, while on the road (and 
waiting in a doctor's office) I have access to news outlets of my choice 
via my cell data plan or the office's guest WiFi.

We buy our cell service from Page Plus Cellular, a third party company 
reselling Verizon service at monthly Pay As You Go rates for the amount 
of data that we need. For us, 2GB/month is more than we're likely to 
need except when traveling, at a cost of about $30/phone/month. Accounts 
are flexible, so it's no big thing to buy more data in months we might 
be traveling. The Motorola phones we bought about three years ago cost 
us about $350 each.

73, Jim K9YC