On 7/27/2017 8:32 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
< When I was working on a cellular project in Haiti in the early 2000's,
<we installed a totally passive repeater system to improve coverage for the
<President's palace to tide us over while we worked to build a cell site for
<the purpose. The passive system had a Yagi mounted on a wooden pole and
<pointed at the closest "donor" cell*. The Yagi's coax feed then went to an
<omni antenna a few feet below the Yagi and behind it (in the Yagi's pattern
<null.) Apparently this combo worked well enough that we had time to build a
<full minicell for the area and had no further complaints from Mr. Aristide's
<folks.
<73 de
<Gene Smar AD3F
## passive repeater system ! Now that sounds like the ideal ticket.
2 ants, and one short coax between em.
I assume kellys remote cottage is for 2-4 months in the summer time, like
June to Sept. Folks go to summer cottages to....get away from it all,
but still, phone service of some type, for emergencies is a must.
Jim VE7RF
Back in the olden days I tried that a few times and didn't have much
luck. We'd be installing a new cell site where ground level signals from
other sites were pitifully weak. Which is why we were installing a new
tower there I guess. Needing comms, we carried an 700 MHZ yagi with us,
and as soon as the tower went up, we'd slap that yagi up there at 100'
or so and search for the best Nextel signal, using a direct connection
to the phone (we had a modified phone with an antenna jack).
At 100' it was usually easy to get a reasonable signal. But there never
seemed to be enough radiated signal out of the ground omni to be of much
use as a repeater. If you connected the feedline directly to our special
phone, it was fine. But you could hold a regular Nextel phone one inch
from the omni repeater antenna, and it was of very dubious value.
It was disappointing.
Nowadays, it's rare that I'm in a spot without usable signal level. I
carry both AT&T and Verizon phones. Usually I'm good on either network,
but in Michigan's U.P. for example, both carriers are needed depending
on location.
-Steve K8LX
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