[TriLUG] slight OT: multi-band cell booster

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, David Burton wrote:

> No, my reply was off-topic.  I was responding to Joseph's 
> message about his moby-cantenna for WiFi.

not familiar with the term "moby" as applied to antennas (or 
much else) and google wasn't helpful either (but I did find 
out about Moby-Duck which was pretty interesting)

>>> Intrex sells a dish for $50:

the problem with these (apart from being big) is that you 
need a wifi card with a coax connector, which I didn't have 
at the time. For my next trip to the FiL's, I bought a USB 
wifi card with a coax connector that I ran up to a 10 
element wifi yagi which I mounted on a tripod designed to 
hold lights for photographers. That got great reception. 
However this is frequency dependant and doesn't help the OP.

Joe

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