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Portable antenna for better phone reception when hiking remote areas?
I frequently hike in remote areas. Rare is the situation where I have line of sight on a tower but no signal. Loss of signal is almost always due to terrain shadows, not power levels. Thus I would ...
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Portable antenna for better phone reception when hiking remote areas?
Consider a Garmin InReach https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/inreach/personal/
It is essentially a two-way satellite phone, except that it only allows text messages and not live voice conversations. It ...
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