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Just got another BDA for indoor cell repeater, formerly AT&T it is on 864 MHz cell B band (now like band 15?) Nice parts are a couple 24 cavity duplexers, one for up and the other for downlink. No guess as to the amp power, a couple or few watts. Won't know more until I get my tracking generator up and working, then see how far I can push the duplexers. Keep me busy a while if nothing.
 

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Those things were great.
I worked for Nextel ASC (authorized service center) and we had a BDA installed as our in building coverage sucked.
Well they also worked great for a couple of the trunking systems on 800mhz that i monitored while at work. This was back in 2000-2008.
 

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Those things were great.
I worked for Nextel ASC (authorized service center) and we had a BDA installed as our in building coverage sucked.
Well they also worked great for a couple of the trunking systems on 800mhz that i monitored while at work. This was back in 2000-2008.

Yeah, they did help our 800MHz trunked system.

until they start self oscillating and took us out. Easy fix, but hard to track down.

If you ever run across one, grab it. There's nice silver plated N and SMA connectors in them. Some really nice coaxial jumper and other goodies, too.
 

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Back in 2000 I worked for a shop that specialized in auto A/C work. We serviced cars, & had 3 trucks on the road delivering parts to shops. We originally used Maxtrac mobiles, but went to Iden portables when they switched over. Because the Iden system was so new, the service was poor at the shop. So we got a BDA from Nextel, & it worked great. That device allowed me to listen to the Miami police 50 miles south of me on my STX as long as I was within 50 feet of the device.
 
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