Mark out possible camera locations and verify the signal strength displayed on your phone. One of the most common sense ways to test cell signal is just to walk the property with your mobile device. Often times you’ll find yourself inside a displayed coverage area without signal.Īll in all coverage maps are still a good place to start without a large time investment. All carriers (Verizon, AT&T, US Cellular, etc) have infographic coverage maps that can be found on their website.įrom my 10 years experience in the telecom world nearly all of these maps are fairly ambitious. One of the easiest ways to get a very general idea of what type of coverage you have on your property is simply looking at carrier maps.

In this blog we are going to cover some tools that can be used to help answer those questions so that you better understand what you are working with to ensure you make the correct purchase on your next cellular trail camera. However, with cellular trail cameras and some remote hunting properties not having cell signal is not that big of an oddity. In fact, it’s fairly rare to be traveling through the US and not have signal on our mobile device. Most of us today don’t give a second thought to not having cell signal or coverage.

The last thing you want to do is go through the purchase process to find out you do not have coverage. With more and more trail camera users wanting to get into the cellular trail camera market, there is still some hesitancy with some frequent questions people ask themselves, which mostly stem from cell coverage… Do I have cell signal on my property? What cellular carrier covers my area? If I have signal, how strong is it?Īll these questions are good things to be wondering and asking yourself before taking the leap into the cell camera world.

Trail camera that works with cell phone