I hope to revive this not so fresh thread because I've been looking for help with the issue of rural signal boosting. I'm particularly interested in Brian Rodgers' post about his 20' antenna tower on the hilltop to get a signal for his cabin downhill. I'm familiar with boosters as I have one on my home in town to improve coverage in my house since my roof blocks all cell signal. I'm looking to get a signal in or around a cabin in a ravine off the side of a river valley. Cell signal is available down the road in the valley or up the hillside out of the ravine, but not down where the cabin is. I'm wanting to know if it is possible to use two directional antennas and a booster to receive the signal from the nearest cell tower, 11 miles away down the valley, from up the hillside above the cabin, and then use a second directional antenna to transmit the signal to the cabin (as opposed to running a cable to an indoor antenna inside the house). I'd be content with signal anywhere around the cabin; it doesn't have to be inside. I estimate the hilltop to cabin distance is about 1000 ft, but I may not need to go all the way to the hilltop to get a signal with a decent antenna and booster. I will need to power the set up with solar panels. Has anyone any knowledge of such a system actually working? Or is retransmission by antenna just not feasible to get a decent signal?
