Thread: Next G Aerials

We have an Next G aerial on the top of our camper for our remote trips, and yes a huge difference, recently on our outback NSW trip plug the aerial in and some form of reception usually

Not sure about Q2, we have always been told to keep all aerials well spaced apart but that may not apply to a phone aerial

Mrs hh

Originally Posted by Rosco

I'm considering fitting an external aerial to improve the range of my phone.

2 Q's

1. Has anyone done it and noticed a significant dillerence??
2. I have been lead to believe I can mount it beside (within about 300mm) of the UHF aerial with no issues due to the different operating frequencies .. true/false??

You will notice a big difference, you will need a patch lead to connect from your phone to the external aerial..make sure you get one that fits your phone as they are different..

I use 1 on our car and 1 on the trawler and they are very impressive with the range, and I got them from dick smith, about $130... Dont get suckered into buying the little 1 that is about 10inches long.

As for interference, I did have mine mounted on the front bar of the D2 and would get the distance apart about 500mm max..The 1 on the trawler is mounted within 1 foot of a VHF and UHF antenna..

Cheers Ean

Hi,

I am currently travelling West OZ (Esperance) and have a Next G antenna mounted about 15cm from a 6db UHF antenna on bull bar.

I have found in areas where I have no reception the antenna can give 1 to 2 bars of reception which is enough to make calls or access internet when connected to internet USB stick.

I have a 80cm Next G antenna but would probably get a longer one if I was buying again.

Kelly

If you are using a standard UHF there should be no interference its only 5 watts just to be safe try to keep at least 30cm between antennae its only on tx that you may get interference so unless you can talk on the radio and phone at the same time no problems

Can confirm it works well.
I run an event in a fairly remote location. There's no broadband by fixed phone lines and Telstra 3g coverage is marginal. So we use a Yagi +9db directional antenna ($160 worth) into a telstra wi-fi router. This gets us 8/1.5meg line speeds which enables us to set up VOIP links to the city office.
We use the same arial for the mobile phone so they work in a site shed. we get our gear from Comnet in Sydney (Comnet Solutions)

Hobbes

i'm guessing only certain phone have the ability for an external antenna??

Yep some still have a socket for the antenna they are better than the induction ones vist your local t shop to see whats around the phones with sockets tend to be a bit basic

Originally Posted by weeds

i'm guessing only certain phone have the ability for an external antenna??

Yes, when we bought ours our daughter (who worked for telstra at the time) made sure we had the phone and aerial to match. Some Next G phones can not take an aerial..

Mrs hh