Would this work?
A much lower cost option is to take a glass mount or suction cup vehicle antenna and attach it to the outside of your window. Attach another antenna to the antenna cable with a coupler and place it in your room.
The inside antenna will act as a passive repeater and will transmit through the outside antenna with better service. You can get antennas fairly inexpensively. Just be sure the db gain on the antennas match.
I learned this trick from an engineer who does it to get better reception in buildings made on mineral based materials. (concrete and steel and aluminum)
does this really work? So now i can get service in my house! And how far would the signal go just in my room or throughout my whole house? thanks
-llkoola1
The inside antenna will act as a passive repeater and will transmit through the outside antenna with better service. You can get antennas fairly inexpensively. Just be sure the db gain on the antennas match.
I learned this trick from an engineer who does it to get better reception in buildings made on mineral based materials. (concrete and steel and aluminum)
does this really work? So now i can get service in my house! And how far would the signal go just in my room or throughout my whole house? thanks
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also there are so many antennas which one would work? i would want a 850/1900 band one that i could attach to my window. thanks
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Not sure, the antenna may require some charge to function - I know that some antennas work without charge, better ones are powered...
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wut? im confused? i want my SE Z500a to work on an antenna that i can install like in the main post. Just a car antenna, but which antenna do i get that would work with my phone and cingular? If it works im gonna be SOO happy because i get a signal EVERYWHERE but my house. And does a car antenna repeat the signal so instead of having no bars-to 3 bars on and off in my house i would have full? thanks
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also with this will i need an amplifier? because i don't want to purchase amplifier, all i want is a easy, and cheap solution and don't need to cover that much area. thanks anybody know?
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im looking at a passive repeater for my house. Will that give me a better signal? anybody else use a passive repeater in their house to improve coverage? thanks
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Gotten in the way of my posting! 😉
I had a Nokia 5165 TDMA with a mini-mag mount antenna. I could use it @ my brother's house, & the the antenna would give me about 1 more bar (10 db gain, more or less) than without. It was a pretty stable signal, however, calls weren't great (even for tdma) but would hold.
I had a Nokia 5165 TDMA with a mini-mag mount antenna. I could use it @ my brother's house, & the the antenna would give me about 1 more bar (10 db gain, more or less) than without. It was a pretty stable signal, however, calls weren't great (even for tdma) but would hold.
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You need to grasp the concept of GOOD, FAST, CHEAP.
You can only have two. Which two do YOU want?
You can only have two. Which two do YOU want?
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wut do u mean which two do i want? im asking would a passive car repeater work in my house? thanks
-llkoola1
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You want it to be cheap, but you want it to work good.
Two things that rarely are found together.
Two things that rarely are found together.
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i just want to know how i get this to work:glass mount or suction cup vehicle antenna and attach it to the outside of your window. Attach another antenna to the antenna cable with a coupler and place it in your room. and what do i buy? I seem to find no luck on the internet. Does anybody know how to do this? thanks
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I'm no radio engineer but I can't imagine that the setup you describe would work or make enough difference to be practical. Since the inside antenna is not powered and does not amplify the signal in any way, all you get going from an antenna into a feed line and then out another antenna is loss of signal strength. Maybe this setup would help if you were in the parking garage 10 stories below the surface of NewYork City and you used the feed line to get out to the surface but just going from inside of a typical house to the outside is a waste of time. A regular wood frame house does not block the signal that much and going the route you mentioned would probably net the same result when you factor in the loss of signal strength you will suf...
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