antenna boosters, do they really do anything?

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Reply to message from "Jerry Cloe" <tom@staff.showmeisp.net> (Tue, 04 Jan
2005 06:33:54) about "antenna boosters, do they really do anything?":


JC> Do antenna boosters really do anything?

JC> Like these:
JC> http://store.yahoo.com/ cellphoneshop/antennabooster.html

I wouldn't think so, to "boost" the signal you'd have to add energy to the
signal and that doesn't create itself in a passive way. If they can do that
then they solved the world's energy problem Or you'd have to aim the
signal more in one direction to boost it there, but then you'll lose it in
the other direction which would make your phone direction sensitive.
Doesn't sound handy plus that it takes very very precise placing of such a
device, unlikely to happen with stickers like these.

It's more likely these things do the same as those funny flash light
stickers; they consume broadcasted energy making the phone need to
broadcast stronger to get the same or less signal in the air, which drains
the battery faster.

Bye
Marcel <no@spam.please> Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:19:11 +0200

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On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 04:33:54 GMT, "Jerry Cloe"
<tom@staff.showmeisp.net> wrote:

>Do antenna boosters really do anything?

Yes. They stick to the back of your phone.

Other than that, no.
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"Stephen Gear" <stephen.gear@zetnet.co.uk> schreef in bericht
news:313030303434383441DB044244@zetnet.co.uk...
> The message <hLyCd.205$9H4.152@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>
> from "tony d" <webmail.deeney@ntlworld.com> contains these words:
>
>> Something like this featured in a "Watchdog" (TV programme) test in the
>> UK
>> and did very little or nothing. The presenter then went on to make an
>> Antenna out of wire and tinfoil which was more effective, but not
>> practical.
> <snip>
> I have been trying to find out how to make an antenna for a mobile phone.
> I have made home made antenna's for citizen band radio before. I live in
> an area where
> I can just get a signal if the phone is held in exactly the right spot,
> I have multiple
> phones and would plan to install a dipole with reflecter to gather enough
> signal.
>
> Does anyone know of details about dimensions/instructions, or even a
> web site??
> Thanks

Perhaps http://www.seattlewireless.net/ind [...] giAntennas

Google lists a lot of sites about yagi-antennas.

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:44:24 +0000, BORG <borg@deadspam.com> wrote:

>I stuck one in the back of my 3330 and it turned it into a 6600, there
>brilliant.

If you turn your 6600 upside down, does it become a 0099?
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