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Jdo300
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Hello all,
I have this weird idea for a cell phone booster antenna and I thought i would run it past you all here to see if it could work.
Where I live, we get really bad reception inside our house so I commonly have to step outside and use my cell phone in the driveway to get a decent signal. Just recently, I had a bright idea to replace the short stub of an antenna with a large, homemade one (using a screw and a metal coat hanger). Surprisingly it works great despite its obvious cheapness. However, I had another bright idea. I have another cell phone (which unfortunately doesn't have an antenna that I can replace on it) so if I were to create a big spiral antenna and hang it high up in a tree somewhere and run a wire to another spiral antenna hanging on the wall in my house, would the antenna channel the cell phone signal from outside into my house so I could get a better reception? Then I could just stand in front of the spiral and get a stronger reception. (Well, that’s the thought anyway). Is this in any way possible? If not, could I build some kind of antenna booster circuit to catch the signals coming from the outside antenna, boost them, and then transmit them into the antenna in the house so I can get a better signal? Can you tell I know nothing about radio antennas?
I would appreciate any comments/ suggestions on this idea. If it is even vaguely possible to do, could someone give me some pointers?
Thanks,
Jason O
I have this weird idea for a cell phone booster antenna and I thought i would run it past you all here to see if it could work.
Where I live, we get really bad reception inside our house so I commonly have to step outside and use my cell phone in the driveway to get a decent signal. Just recently, I had a bright idea to replace the short stub of an antenna with a large, homemade one (using a screw and a metal coat hanger). Surprisingly it works great despite its obvious cheapness. However, I had another bright idea. I have another cell phone (which unfortunately doesn't have an antenna that I can replace on it) so if I were to create a big spiral antenna and hang it high up in a tree somewhere and run a wire to another spiral antenna hanging on the wall in my house, would the antenna channel the cell phone signal from outside into my house so I could get a better reception? Then I could just stand in front of the spiral and get a stronger reception. (Well, that’s the thought anyway). Is this in any way possible? If not, could I build some kind of antenna booster circuit to catch the signals coming from the outside antenna, boost them, and then transmit them into the antenna in the house so I can get a better signal? Can you tell I know nothing about radio antennas?
I would appreciate any comments/ suggestions on this idea. If it is even vaguely possible to do, could someone give me some pointers?
Thanks,
Jason O