Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Cellular Phone Antenna Question Message-ID: Date: 16 Oct 89 22:37:04 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: folta@tove.umd.edu.UUCP (Wayne Folta) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 456, message 4 of 7 The price of cellular phones has been dropping recently, so I got a reconditioned phone for $230 (Fed. Expressed to my door). It comes in a backpack, with a magnetic-mount antenna. I'd like to put a little work into it and make a nicer, more permanent set-up, so: Can anyone tell me about cellular phone antennas? Why the little curly part of the antenna (does it have something to do with horizontal v. vertical polarization?)? Why is the Radio Shack window- mount antenna so much smaller than my magnetic mount? And why does the Radio Shack antenna have such a large passive coupler (I think) base? I would like to disguise the antenna, to avoid break-ins, as the rest of the system will be hidden. Any clever ideas here? Maybe use the FM antenna? Maybe an antenna in the back window? Wayne Folta (folta@tove.umd.edu 128.8.128.42)