I've recently moved into a new apartment that has atrocious cell reception. I have looked online for low-powered cell repeaters, but being a college student on a college-student budget, I can't really afford a 100-200 dollar device that would probably only serve me for two years. So that got me thinking...why not build an amplifier/repeater? I can rather easily acquire necessary components from the engineering school on campus and I thought it'd be a nice project to take on before classes start. With my rather limited electronics knowledge, I'm guessing that such a device would require some antenna located outdoors (or anywhere indoors with a somewhat acceptable signal), a bidirectional amplifier powered by converted mains power, and then an indoors antenna.
Now, this is just all wishful thinking at this point, is there anyone with more in-depth knowledge about signal amplification and willing to help out a bit?
Now, this is just all wishful thinking at this point, is there anyone with more in-depth knowledge about signal amplification and willing to help out a bit?