In a message dated 4/20/2007 8:44:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The longest run of coax would be under 30 feet so I should be able to use LMR-400 for the feed line. The one thing I'm not sure about is how to connect the coax to the phone. Is there an adaptor that would go between the little jack on the phone and then to one of the more common coax connectors like a TNC or SMA or some such thing? For starters, you need a cell phone that has an external antenna port. Some of them don't. For 30 feet I would put the money into a high gain yagi and first see the results with RG-213 which of course has higher losses than LMR or Heliax, but for 30 feet it may not make a serious difference. A short pigtail of RG-58 to make the phone less cumbersome to use won't hurt much either. The adaptors for the cell phone antenna port are available from Cellantenna. They offer an adaptor for virtually every cell phone there is. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
