CellBooster FMCA
What does a CellBooster FMCA partnership mean for you? Well… If you happen to be one of the 8.9 Million households in the US that own an RV, quite a bit! And if you happen to be among the thousands that are members of the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) and subscribe to FMCA’s Tech Connect+ benefit package, even MORE!
Right now, subscribers to FMCA’s Tech Connect+ benefit package can receive a coupon code that will allow them to receive 15% off of any cell phone signal booster purchase from our online shop. So essentially, this CellBooster FMCA deal means more money in your pocket. And better connection to your loved ones while on the road.
You: “But what does this cell phone booster mumbo-jumbo mean, Rob?”
I’m glad you asked! These cell phone signal boosters are devices that are specifically designed to help you defeat cellular dead-zones during cross-country trips and off-the-grid overnight stays. A cellular signal booster will help provide crystal-clear call quality and improved data speeds on all North American cell carriers. These devices are specifically designed to work well in RVs.
You: “But what do you know about RVs, Rob?”
I’ll be honest, I have a pretty limited experience with motorhomes. This CellBooster FMCA deal hasn’t existed forever. In fact, let me tell you a story about my only RV experience!
Gramps and Mama RoRo
My dear grandma “Mama RoRo” and grandpa “Gramps” were the greatest grandparents in the WORLD! I loved them a ton. I’m still sad that they are no longer with us. Gramps was a laid-back, easy going man that would have done ANYTHING in his power to make Mama RoRo happy.
One of Mama RoRo’s sisters (my aunt Janet) and her husband (my uncle Frank) retired pretty early in life. Frank had spent many, many years working for one of the old Bell Companies, Mountain Bell. He was a good man! He actually taught me a lot about phone wiring that I would use later in my life when I worked as a phone system vendor putting myself through college. Buy anyway, when they retired, they spent the rest of their lives as “snowbirds”. They would spend the summers at their home in Ivins, Utah and then spend the winters in Yuma, Arizona. Apparently, they loved the heat, because a summer in Ivins, Utah, on the outskirts of the desert of Saint George was hardly a picnic in the summer months!
Eventually, when my grandparents retired, my Mama RoRo could think of nothing that she desired more than spend the rest of their lives as snowbirds. She longed travelling with her sister Janet, and spending their winters in Yuma, Arizona. It wasn’t Gramp’s idea of a great time, but his undying and utter devotion to my Mama RoRo meant that he was going to do WHATEVER she wanted to!
Road Trip
One year, on their way to Yuma, they stopped by Saint George and picked up a few grandkids to make the trek with them. Their motorhome was no palace. Not by any stretch of the imagination. But, it was all my Mama RoRo wanted and that was good enough for Gramps.
My cousins and I loaded into the motorhome and we started south on I-15. We sat in back, playing our games of “Go Fish” (my cousin Kellie is a cheater). When we neared the half-way point between the beginning and end of the Virgin River Gorge, we noticed the smoke. Being the family nerd, I could clearly tell that it was the smell of an electrical fire. This was the second time that one of my grandparent’s vehicles would try to kill me. (The first time was when I fell out of the back of their moving station wagon, but that’s a different story altogether. )
Gramps quickly pulled the motorhome to the side of the road, but it wasn’t quite quick enough. The engine compartment bellowed with smoke. And the interior was starting to fill with smoke as well, because the smoke was being sucked into the air conditioning. To make matters worse, I had thrown the fire extinguisher into the very back of the motorhome in an effort to keep my brother from “accidentally” hitting me with it anymore.
Needless to say, the vacation was a total loss. I’m not sure how the motorhome fared. We waited on the side of the road for my uncle to drive past. He had left a few hours after us. There weren’t cell phones in those days, and even if there had been, the middle of the Virgin River Gorge was no place to get cell phone service. Until now!
What Might Have Been
Had this incident occurred a decade later, we might have had a cell phone. We probably still wouldn’t have been able to make a call though. Have you ever been through the Virgin River Gorge? I think it’s a beautiful drive. One of my favorites!
The Virgin River Gorge on Interstate 15 is one of the costliest highways ever constructed. The road was created by blasting out miles of limestone and sandstone walls to create a more direct route from Saint George, Utah to Beaver Dam, Arizona. The towering, beautiful canyon walls are definitely a visual distraction for the winding road. Getting cell phone signal at the base of these massive cliffs is a true challenge.
Now, I have never been important enough to be on a cell phone call while driving the length of the Virgin River Gorge, but I have a friend who definitely is. He claims that where he would normally have to end his calls before entering the gorge, with his cell phone booster, he is now able to carry his calls through most of the gorge. There are still two spots where he will drop his call, but for the most part, he is able to keep his calls alive through there.
So… (back to my story) if my motorhome experience had been decades later, and Gramps had a cell phone signal booster for his motorhome, we might not have had to sit on the side of the road for HOURS waiting for my uncle to drive by. But alas, hindsight is always 20/20.
Don’t Count Me Out
This motorhome experience hasn’t completely soured me. I would love to own one some day. That’s where YOU come in! If you buy tons of cell phone signal boosters from my shop, I will be able to buy one soon. *wink wink* Maybe I’ll even be able to pick up a sweet rig like my Uncle Jim’s. (At 15% off thanks to this CellBooster FMCA deal)
Someday I will be able to enjoy the open road. I’ll throw my wife and bazillion kids into the back of my rig, and we will have a BLAST! Of course, the kids will fight and argue, they will make me regret every minute of driving. But when we get there… the view will be AWESOME! And we will have great cell phone service, wherever we go, because I will definitely have a cell phone signal booster like this Fusion2Go 3.0 RV Kit! If only I’d known about the CellBooster FMCA thing a few years earlier.
