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Connecting Cordless Phones to a Cellular?

Posted by Cliff on from the communications-in-BFE dept.

dmallery asks: "I live about 40 miles from the nearest Verizon cell. Last week, I put a 13db Yagi antenna about 18' up and voila: a reliable connection! The problem, of course, is that the phone has to be connected to the antenna to be usable. I have two wire lines that I'd love to get rid of, but you can barely hear the cell phone ring! Is there a way I can 'patch' from the digital phone to my cordless phones? There used to be something like that, but it was only for analog phones. Has anyone had this problem?"

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  1. Strange question for you to be asking... by GoRK · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is a strange question for you to be asking given that you were obviously resourceful enough to discover and find a place to sell you an appropriate yagi antenna comaptible with your phone and cellular frequencies and resourceful enough to install it. What's more these types of devices are almost always sold by the same people that carry fixed mount high gain cellular antennas, so I find it very hard to believe that you had trouble finding one.

    Anyway, since you didn't specify what phone you need it to work with, I don't know if either of these will work for you or not but try these easily-found-on-google solutions:

    http://store.voxilla.com/customer/product.php?pr od uctid=16136

    http://cellsocket.com/

  2. Buy another antenna - passive repeater by stienman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Buy another antenna, but this time it should be omnidirectional. The yagi is already positioned, so just attach the omni to the other end of the cable.

    Tada! Instant passive repeater. Now you can keep the phone with you and wireless. The signal strength won't be as good as a direct connection to the yagi, but it should still work well.

    -Adam