Funny story... years ago I was doing an install on a customer's house, noticed a strange coax-connected box, asked what it was. It was an analog cellular backup box - if the hardwired phoneline went down it would switch the house over to cellular. I asked where the coax was going and they said it went to "the antenna" outside. Traced it and it went to a regular TV antenna... I told them there was a notable frequency/impedance mismatch (AMPS 850mhz vs TV antenna 54-700mhz; TV standard 75 ohm vs that box likely 50 ohm) but they said that it worked. I guess that the TV antenna was wideband enough.
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM Rory Conaway <[email protected]> wrote: > An antenna is an antenna. If TV antennas were 50 ohms, they would make > great TV White Space antennas for example. > > The only difference from sectors is that these antennas have a higher > vertical beam pattern. > > > > Rory > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * Kurt Fankhauser > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:12 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] KP 900mhz flatpanel as 450i AP antenna > > > > Anyone using this antenna for a 450-900mhz AP antenna instead of the giant > sector? Have a couple towers that can't take the wind load and looking for > alternatives just wondering if anyone else has tried it. > > > > https://www.kpperformance.com/900-mhz-13-5-dbi-dual-pol-flat-panel-antenna > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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