jkm
Member
Hello to all,
I was wondering if anyone has played around with the Wilson Electronics 8-Element Yagi antenna? The antenna is actually meant to be used with cellular telephones, but it seems close enough to work with trunked systems in the 851-868 Mhz region. With a few adapters, I've managed to get to an SMA connector from an FME connector (which is on the 5 Ft. jumper that I got with the antenna.
So far, I'm pretty impressed with it. I had originally bought it to try to receive a new APCO P25 system in the next county north of me on which I was having severe multipath problems due to the simulcast nature of the system. Using the yagi seems to have cleared up a great deal of the problems and I get about 90% of the transmissions clearly now compared to 40% before.
I also took it outside and played with it for a while, and was quite surprised to hear both Montgomery County and the City of Dayton trunked systems, both of which are around 75 miles from where I live! And when I turned the beam 180 degrees away from Dayton, I could hear, on the same control channel as the City of Dayton, the Heath, Ohio trunked system. With the Wilson Electronics Magnet Mount Antenna I bought as well that I have on the car, I can barely hear either of those systems.
I guess 800 MHz is really sensitive and the antenna, to work directionally, really needs to be outside; inside of a building, the signals seem to bounce all over the place and things that are west of me come in best when I point to the southeast
Still, even inside it doesn't do that bad of a job considering.
Just wondering if anyone else has had experience with this antenna. It's definitely worth taking a look at.
Justin/W1IX
I was wondering if anyone has played around with the Wilson Electronics 8-Element Yagi antenna? The antenna is actually meant to be used with cellular telephones, but it seems close enough to work with trunked systems in the 851-868 Mhz region. With a few adapters, I've managed to get to an SMA connector from an FME connector (which is on the 5 Ft. jumper that I got with the antenna.
So far, I'm pretty impressed with it. I had originally bought it to try to receive a new APCO P25 system in the next county north of me on which I was having severe multipath problems due to the simulcast nature of the system. Using the yagi seems to have cleared up a great deal of the problems and I get about 90% of the transmissions clearly now compared to 40% before.
I also took it outside and played with it for a while, and was quite surprised to hear both Montgomery County and the City of Dayton trunked systems, both of which are around 75 miles from where I live! And when I turned the beam 180 degrees away from Dayton, I could hear, on the same control channel as the City of Dayton, the Heath, Ohio trunked system. With the Wilson Electronics Magnet Mount Antenna I bought as well that I have on the car, I can barely hear either of those systems.
I guess 800 MHz is really sensitive and the antenna, to work directionally, really needs to be outside; inside of a building, the signals seem to bounce all over the place and things that are west of me come in best when I point to the southeast
Still, even inside it doesn't do that bad of a job considering. Just wondering if anyone else has had experience with this antenna. It's definitely worth taking a look at.
Justin/W1IX
