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 ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
