Long Distance Line of Sight Cordless Phone recommendations"

[ultrarunner]

My brother mentioned it would be nice to be able to have a line of sight cordless phone for the Christmas Tree Farm for about 6 weeks each year...

The Tree Farm has a long established dedicated number that gets as many a 60 calls right after Thanksgiving asking about trees.

I thought he could simply forward calls to a cell but coverage is spotty... thought about trenching a line but that 2,000 feet to the Santa Booth would only work in the booth...

Are there some good options for a cordless long distance phone to use around the property?

 

[speedbump]

Yes there are. It depends on the phone and the frequency it transmits and receives on. You can easily build an antenna that will extend it's signal greatly. There are far too many to mention and lots of variables. But extending your range by use of higher gain antennas is very doable.

 

[Gunny]

Some brands have repeaters, Panasonic comes to mind, that can extend the range. Exactly how far, I don't know and you'd have to have electricity available wherever the repeater sits.

 

[jymbee]

Was along time ago but I bought a phone from this EnGenius outfit:

My brother mentioned it would be nice to be able to have a line of sight cordless phone for the Christmas Tree Farm for about 6 weeks each year...

The Tree Farm has a long established dedicated number that gets as many a 60 calls right after Thanksgiving asking about trees.

I thought he could simply forward calls to a cell but coverage is spotty... thought about trenching a line but that 2,000 feet to the Santa Booth would only work in the booth...

Are there some good options for a cordless long distance phone to use around the property?

 

[Eldubya]

The Engenius system will work just fine for your application. They are designed to be used in large warehouse / workyard situations. Very tough and reliable, but that comes with a cost of course. I've used them around my 10 acre resort for over 10 years with no problems at all. My place is very heavily treed and I do not get line of sight most of the time. Not an issue.

 

[ultrarunner]

Been reading up and most reviews are positive...

Some on the negative are high repair cost...

It sounds like it would do the job and it and being able to answer the phone real time would improve sales as folks are not as likely to drive a distance without checking first and returning calls in the evening is often too late.

His phone is tied with Comcast and he thought he could get a second extension on the property but Comcast said can't do... only one account per address.

Years ago the set up with with Pacific Bell... and set up with a remote extension in that the line rings at two places although geographically separated all the time with no forwarding required.

They had about 80 nice cut trees left over... and 1400 sold... every night he would return calls and by that time it was too late... as in they only had that day for family tree shopping and made other arrangements...

I still think seasonal forwarding might work to his cell but he is a busy guy and needs to do more than spend the day the phone...

 

[k0ua]

The engenius is what we sold and what I always specified in engineering phone systems for business that needed that way out there one of (or few) of links back to either a PBX or Key system or even just on straight lines. It works well, and we never had much trouble with them. It seems to be a cut above the regular consumer product, of course the price is a "cut above" too, but you don't get something for nothing most of the time. I have been out of the engineering of phone/data systems for over 3 years now, and there may be something else just as good, but the engenius is what we always used.

 

[ultrarunner]

Seems to be about a $500 commitment...

Engenius Durafon1X

 

[k0ua]

Seems to be about a $500 commitment...

Engenius Durafon1X

Yes, of course as a large corporation, we got them for much less.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

His phone is tied with Comcast and he thought he could get a second extension on the property but Comcast said can't do... only one account per address.

Do you mean that he has a home number and a business number, and they won't do both?

Or are they telling him that he cannot have more than one actual phone on his line?


Neither makes sense. Do a quick search online - there are tons of VoIP services that offer multiple numbers. Not a problem. If Comcast won't do it, dump Comcast. Use them for Internet only and get your phone service elsewhere.


If they are telling him he can't have more than one physical phone on a line, again, baloney! The Comcast box that converts the Internet to phone simply provides a phone jack. At that point it is POTS, as we say in the business. Plain Old Telephone Service. Once it's POTS, you can do pretty much whatever you want to do, as long as you know what you are doing.

The problem may be that their VoIP box has a low REN. In that case, you can simply plug their box into a booster (like this one) and then hang as many phones as you want to off that booster.