On Jul 17, 4:44 am, LA4RT Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:
David Lesher writes:
You writes:

It is attached to a 30 ft RG58U coax cable that runs back to a TNC-
to-FME adapter, then to the Sierra card.

Only a Dufus, would expect to get ANY signal down 30Ft of RG-58U at those
Frequencies......

I would be more polite but would say 30 ft of RG-58 is an excellent
dummy load at 1900...

Indeed.

But nonetheless, an el cheapo yagi for 900 MHz GSM with 10 m of RG-58
boosted the indication on my phone from no bars to all 5 bars. The
yagi sees more signal because it is higher up. The yagi gain is
probably just a but more than cable + connector loss. And it looks
like the built in antenna in the phone has a significant negative
gain.

Around here, marginal areas mostly have 900 MHz. So if you need an
external antenna at all, you probably need one for 900.

OP: There has to be something wrong with your antenna system.

73
Jon

Hello and thank you for the reply. I had asked around in the groups
originally

(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...ar/browse_frm/
thread/3f05f40902745b5/a91191a5bd3d3eb1?lnk=st&q=chris%40groupinfo.com
+frequencies&rnum=12#a91191a5bd3d3eb1)

and was told the frequencies were 800 MHz and 1900 MHz, so this is why
I chose this antenna. For 900 MHz, what frequency range should an
antenna cover to make sure it would work? I will do some more
checking to see if this might be our problem.

Thank you!