Question for Max Signal

I guess the "some" improvement you see is better than the "none" I see with the cheaper model. But since I didn't buy it direct, I'll not attribute it to the brand just yet.

 

Brinkman , Your problem has been antenna placement , when you had both antennas up front so close together for all that time I fear you fried the amplifier. Send me the amplifier and the power cable and we will swap them out. You should be getting much better results than you are. When you install the new one please follow my instructions on placing the antennas.

 

Here I am paying for Flying J's Internet access because my signal's weak in the back of the truck and I just got frustrated. Wish I knew if Houdini really had the CA-819 or the DBSW-819, as the wired unit would just piss me off. Anyway, 12 hours left of my 34-hour reset. Was completely ready to buy an amplifier at the hook, but they didn't have any. In fact, I haven't seen one of the cell-phone rip-off booths in a truck-stop in over a month. Perhaps I'm just stopping at the wrong places.

 

Houdini won a CA819 kit , Prisoner won an IVWA819 , Luck lady won a CA819 Kit , I believe

 

Ok, thanks for the info. I'll give him a call tomorrow and tell him to relist it in the classifieds or whatever he did before. I had actually looked up the thread where he won it and it said he won the IVWA819. I wouldn't take a wired unit if I could get it for just the cost of shipping. Guess I'll have to find one of the truckstops that rips ya off on the Wilson amps. $400 isn't horrible for the amp, but they could at least include the antennas.

 

Found a power cord in the J that works for the DBSW819. The light goes bright, then dim, then stays bright when I plug it in. Absolutely 0 gain on my signal back here (my laptop's about 2 feet from the internal antenna). I just don't understand how an amplifier could give absolutely no gain. But like I said, it's probably something the seller on eBay did, not a defect of the product itself. Still drives me nuts. Maybe I'll open it up later and take a peak.