[Elecraft] Cell Phone Antenna Enhancement?

[Sandy]

Ron,
    Any links as to where to start looking?  I'm in  a REAL fringy area 
here!

73,
Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <rondec at easystreet.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Cell Phone Antenna Enhancement?


> Yep, cellular (and GSM) phone repeaters are readily-available that have an
> outside antenna and one that goes in the house. Where I'm moving in a 
> couple
> of weeks over on the Oregon Coast the cellular/GSM service is spotty and 
> I'm
> ordering such a unit today.
>
> I'll send you some links privately. Some offer highly-directional antennas
> to avoid connecting to a tower you don't want to use.
>
> It is possible to rig a "passive repeater" - two antennas; one up in the
> clear and one near where you are with the phone. Indeed, if you aren't
> wandering all over the place with the phone in your hand you can simply 
> rig
> an outdoor antenna with coax to your phone. Most phones have a connector 
> for
> that purpose. I've not done that with a phone, but we did it in some land
> mobile installations using 900 MHz some years back when a customer's
> facility was behind a ridge line or other obstruction.
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I know this is way off target - but I figure there
> may be cell phone RF antenna experts lurking in this
> forum.....
>
> I'm wondering if one couldn't make up some sort
> of antenna-enhancer on our cell phone, to beef
> up the cell signal that the phone hears?  There is
> no external antenna jack on our Sony Erikson cell
> phone - but it does have a 1 inch handle type
> shape on top of the phone, where I suspect the
> cell phone's antenna is.
>
> 73, de Fred, N3CSY, US/CA border
>
>
>
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