Asking mostly out of curiosity on this one. Some friends of mine live in a place in the mountains in Southern Spain. They can receive mobile phone calls a few hundred yards from their house, on the top of a small rise, but not further down where they are living. I was wondering when I was out there to visit whether it would be possible to make a passive repeater by putting up a large highly directional antenna on the hill pointing at the mobile phone mast (there's an old power pylon which would do to mount it on), and then connect it with coax to a smaller antenna by the house. Would this work, or would you need some kind of active circuitry?
--
http://www.niftybits.ukfsn.org/
remove 'n-u-l-l' to email me. html mail or attachments will go in the spam
Click to see the full signature