Comms Guru needed?

[amshaw]

Ive just bought a mobile phone anntena at a garage sale for $5...you know the type, 900mm long , black,thick with a spring base.

Just wondering if I can use this anntena for anything else? ie with uhf, Bearcat uhf/vuf scanner or our digital mob?

Details ;
RFi cdma cellular
Model;CD1295
Gain;5db
Freq;824-896mhz

If I cant use it for anything else I will just take to spring base and use that somwhere.

[Utemad]

It won't be any good for UHF as that is 477Mhz.
I have seen people use GSM and CDMA antennas for both phone types so maybe it will work for your GSM phone.....maybe it won't.

I'd say that you should buy a CDMA phone :)

[langy]

It'll be a decent scanner antenna, and a reasonable GSM antenna. Unless you have a SWR meter and trim it, you won't be able to adapt it for CB. Most anything you stick up outside the car aids any band phone.
ps: If you don't use it, I'll trade it for a proper UHF CB whip antenna with ground independant base

[amshaw]

Thanks for that....Im hoping our local radio guru may be able to tune it to get somwhere near the band width for our scanner......can only ask I guess :)

[Nigger]

he wont be able to tune it as it is a dedicated CDMA antenna and has been replaced by the CD1795 which covers both CDMA and GSM. I know, I helped design it! You can also get a matching 477MHz antenna from RFI (a fraction longer and lower in gain) for about the same money as the CD1795.