Mobile phone aerial

Hi Brad n Jenny

I assume you are using Telstra as your service provider?....if your not then its probably not worth investing any $ to improve reception once you leave the major populated areas simply because only Telstra will give you any sort of decent coverage outside the major areas

Next point is that the "patch connection" are simply a complete waste of money and if anything will only give you a marginal improvement on signal strength/reception......

If your serious about needing extended coverage then your going to have spend a couple of dollars on both your antennae probably and most definitely another handset with the external jack on the back....(that requires a patch lead to go from the fme connector on the antennae (standard fitting) onto the phone jack (they are specific to that phone type of jack)

Telstra do have some Android smart phones that have the external jack...and most of them can be purchased outright for not a lot compared to the high end smart phones

I have one that I simply switch my SIM card into once I'm out of normal range...SIM card adapters help this transition between phones if needed.

Antennae really needs to be a name brand (I use RFI and these are excellent)...and specific to the frequency your service is on.....I have two interchangeable whips onto a common base subject to the terrain I am in.........I have had signal up to 80km as the crow flies on flat country

Going to cost you a couple of dollars...but you only get what you pay for in this situation.

Cheers

Hi B&J, there are cradles available which an inductive coupling for the external aerial connection. I use a BURY with my Sony Xperia and it does make a difference. However it does not guarantee a signal everywhere. You can find a local retailer on the BURY site Bury

I have a smoothtalker for my iphone 4s, with it hand held on the Kakadu highway i had 2 dot signal strength, sitting in the smoothtalker cradle i had 4 dot strength. So they do work. I have a 800 - 900 mm broomstick RFI aerial on the bullbar.

I have a RFI aerial and a carcomm inductive cradle...both sit in the garage.

Made zero difference to the reception on my Nokia 920 phone...I even removed the aerial and put it in a tree 10 ft above the 4wd ( at a place that was a marginal maybe 1 bar reception ) to no avail..

Complete waste of time and I wouldn't buy another brand unless I was certain it would work.

Apparently the iPhone 4s are the best for reception in the apple range, so this may also be a cause to the difference too

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