Cell booster antenna

Ordered a cell booster kit from SolidRF (way cheaper at $200 than the Weboost branded kits and effectively the same hardware) and a telescoping pole (25 feet, collapses to 6 feet for storage/transport) and took the Tab for its inaugural drive with our new TV (2022 X3) to a known dead spot in a valley.  Plugged in, went from zero data and one bar to streaming speeds and full 5 bars. Works like a charm!  This kit is a directional style which gets you more range but you need to point it in the direction of a known cell tower.  Should allow us to get more time in the parks if I can work remotely a bit more as a result and use up less vacation time! 

External antenna mount is a breeze with a plastic base foot and two adhesive mounts on the side of the trailer.  I doub the effectiveness of adhesive but I cleaned the area well with alcohol first and then found inserting the pole to the base and sliding the pole's brackets to align to the Tab's mount points was a good way to avoid stress on the mounting points and they held well in some fairly windy conditions during my test today.

I routed the external antenna to the cable input in the Nautilus panel, then stuck the internal amp + internal antenna on the back of the tv using some heavy duty double sided tape and thick rubber bands, grabbing the coax from the TV as well as patching into the TV's 12V power line.  The amp only draws 0.3A according to the BMV so even boondocking we will be rocking some data . At least until we get on Elon's newfangled satellites that is!

I also had a friendly York region (north of Toronto) officer slow down to ask if everything was ok - after telling them what I was up to they gave me a "have fun" lol.  

Ps. The antenna in the photo only looks a bit askew because we're half-parked on a shoulder on this country road..