T&T: Cellular phone amplifiers

[M Sharp]

Hi Jeff. Your experience is similar to mine. I also found the Wilson to
perform better than the DA (emperically - I have no test data) but have used
DA on my boats due to their antennas - I did not know Wilson made the marine
version. It looks like a marinized version of their very popular truckers
antenna which I have used and get good results with. The DA antennas do seem
to be well built and I have used mine for over 3 years with no apparent
problems.


I also tried the wireless version of the DA (in a remote house, not a boat)
and could not get it to work well due to interference between the phone and
the outside antenna - those systems have to be carefully configured and I
would not even try one on a trawler!


Looking forward to your going mobile update. Should be interesting.


> From: jeff at activecaptain.com> To: mikejsharp at hotmail.com;
voyageryacht at aol.com; kk38 at bellsouth.net> CC:
trawlers-and-trawlering at lists.samurai.com> Subject: RE: T&T: Cellular phone
amplifiers> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:51:24 -0500> > > The Wilson equipment is
good but if you are looking for a> > set up for your boat you should also look
at a company > > called Digital Antenna. Similar amplifiers to Wilson but> >
they also have Marine antennas matched to their amplifiers.> > I tested the
DA4000 alongside the Wilson amp on my trawler. The only two> differences that
I found were that the Digital Antenna device didn't provide> as much
amplification and was more expensive. I considered those to be> significantly
problematic differences. I also tried the DA wireless version> and found it
totally unacceptable for use on my boat (no significant> amplification).> >
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