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  1. 5th November 2006, 01:18 PM #1
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    Comms Guru needed?

    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.
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  2. 5th November 2006, 03:17 PM #2
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    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
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    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
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  4. 6th November 2006, 04:39 PM #4
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    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
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    he wont be able to tune it as it is a dedicated CDMA antenna and has been replaced by the CD1795 which covers both CDMA and GSM.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.
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