External cell phone antennas and how to connect them to your cell phone.

External cell phone antennas and how to connect them to you cellular phones! Now we are going to look at what most of you wanted to see when you arrived here.

There are basically two ways, directly connected to your phone and indirectly connected. Both methods will require a wire attached to your phone, but one will be attached to an actual cell phone antenna connection terminal and the other will be attached to the outside shell or case of your mobile phone.

The first picture will be of the indirect connection type.

These types of connections provide a little more gain than a repeater. Simplified, gain is how much signal your phone "sees" and how much power your phone can put into the antenna to get the maximum use out of it.

It is actually much more complicated than that but this explanation will do for now. Most of you won't want to get into the really technical aspects of this, but for those who do, I will put up links to sites providing highly technical information. This simplified format is aimed at those who "just want it to work"!

See where the little red arrow is pointing? A lot of phones will have something that looks like this.

You wont see it exactly like this one because every phone will have a different location for their external cell phone antennas. Yours should also have a little rubber plug in the cell phone antenna port unless you lost it.

It will be a miniature rubber stopper capping the antenna port off. This is there to keep the dirt and moisture out so if you don't have yours, it is recommended you get another one! Now you will need a specialty wire that fits into there with the correct fitting on it and your online retail store will need to know the exact model of your mobile phone to get you the right one.

This wire makes the connection from your phone to your external cell phone antenna and amplifier so this is critical! Trying to force the wrong antenna cable in here will do serious damage to your mobile phone!

The metal probe in the upper right corner fits into the antenna port of your cellular phone and the other end in the left side of the picture fits into the coax cable going to your amplifier and external cell phone antenna assembly.

This is a push to fit connector so if you forget to disconnect it and let's say you parked and jumped out of your car, this would pull loose if you accidentally forget to disconnect it properly.

Don't yank on it! Your phone was not designed for hard use and abuse! Yanking on this cable from either end could break it and if you break the cell phone antenna port on your phone, you could have to buy another phone or pay to have yours fixed and in the meantine, you would be without it!

For that reason alone, many have decided to go with a repeater amp and antenna combo when installing external cell phone antennas like the one in the link below. Go here to see pictures of typical external cell phone antennas. For those of you who often find yourselves in a hurry (which one of us isn't!) the repeater pictured here in the above link may be the best mobile phone solution for you.

The signal gain on a repeater is not as good as a direct connection, but if you're not in a really remote area far from a cell tower, then a repeater should be fine since the difference in antenna gain is slight.

Repeater amps have been desigened to provide maximum signal gain and stabilty for cell phone reception in fringe areas. For those in remote areas where signal strength is really hard to get then a direct connection can make the difference between getting a call connected or not.

If you are in one of these areas, like a remote vacation cabin, then you would need a fixed Yagi antenna like the example pictured below.