• Re: Cell phone antennas

    From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to Nightfox on Sunday, July 31, 2011 04:01:50
    On 7/18/2011 6:43 PM, Nightfox wrote:
    Recently, my work moved us to a different office, and my cell phone doesn't get
    any signal in most of the new building.. Recently I bought a new cell phone (not really related to that issue), and I've noticed that this new phone has what looks like an antenna port in the battery compartment near the battery. I'm wondering if I might be able to buy some kind of antenna that would fit in
    there and help increase the phone's signal strength. I'm just not sure if I'd
    be able to find an antenna that would work, because the port is right under the
    battery cover, so there isn't much room in there. This is a picture I took of
    the phone with the battery cover off, with a red square around the port: http://home.comcast.net/~nightfox/LG_Optimus_V_Back.jpg
    Does anyone know if that really is an antenna port, and if so, if there's anything that might fit there that could help increase the phone's reception?

    How big is your office? How many people work there? Do many of them have corporately issued phones? If so, you may be able to convince the cell provider to put a cell repeater inside the office, or another tower closer to the office.

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