Wilson Sleek Cradle Booster

I really enjoyed my stay at Glenwood, especially at their public library since it goes a long way toward wiping out the hole in the Verizon coverage there. And they allow visitors to check out books and DVDs, which encourages you to stay longer.

  It's always fun to drop in on the Cat Walk again:

On the drive from hot Glenwood NM to cool Luna NM we passed a classic New Mexico wreck. There was nothing special about it except that I love all such wrecks.

Using my notes from the past I chose a boondocking site near Luna NM that is quite high. We just barely made it in. Then I walked over to my RV community camper, pulled a sad face, and apologized to her for only being at 7000 feet. She was gracious about it, and promised not to rub my nose in it, too bad. As it turned out, the GPS needed a little longer to find the satellites through the ponderosas. We're actually at 8250 feet.

It's easy to see the hotspot of the Whitewater/Baldy/Gila fire near Mogollon/Glenwood NM. Thank goodness it is downwind of us!

Thanks to having my own personal electronics tester, I recently procured a Wilson Sleek cradle booster amplifier, which I use in conjunction with a Verizon (Novatel 2200) mi-fi. Today it proved its worth. Our new campsite is in the Luna NM area, with the nearest Verizon cell tower being about 15 miles away. The 3G (EVDO) signal is -105 decibels. (Hold the cursor over the network bars on the VZ Access Manager box.) You could call it zero or one bar, out of four bars total.

Then I slid the mi-fi into the Wilson Sleek cradle booster amplifier. The signal went up to -95 decibels: that's a 10 decibel improvement, which is a lot! Or call it a one-and-a-half bar improvement. (I'm only using it with the 5 inch tall antenna that magnetically mounts to a steel surface, such as the trailer frame.)

Thus our little RV community is able to enjoy internet (and forest fire warnings) at an eye-popping location, thanks to the Wilson Sleek.