Here are marine cell phone types of antennas and mobile phone antennas with a description of each.

Below you will find different types of antennas, marine cell phone antennas and marine mobile phone antennas with pictures.

Remember, cell phone antennas refers to antennas that will work on most every cell phone, those you can drop into your pocket or purse and will include mobile phones. Mobile phone antennas refers to mobile phones such as a bag phone or those in primarily dedicated installations such as a car or motorhome.

These are brief descriptions for your reference and full part numbers and availability will be added later, but you will ge the idea about the differences between the two types of antennas, marine and land based including land based mobile installations.

Fiberglass marine aquatic type of antenna

This is one of the most common antennas for marine and watercraft use. Note the mast, it is surrounded by fiberglass to protect the metals inside that would normally rust and corrode with out it.

This is the reason that you can use a marine antenna on a land base installation but not vice versa! The one exception might be if you had a boat rental and needed a antenna and amplifier combo that you could remove and take with you when you were done with the boat.

These types of antennas are typically about 2 1/2 to 3 feet high and are the type you would want mounted as high as reasonably possible. This will give you the best cell phone reception for this type of antenna and these last for a long time if installed properly.

These are another example of marine antennas

These antennas are simillar to the one pictured above. The big difference here is size. These antennas are about 3 1/2 feet tall and they will work on most types of cell service frequencies, including TDMA, CDMA, GSM, GPRS, Etc.

IDEN signals usually require their own type of antenna although these claim to be able to receive IDEN service too. Keep in mind that most antennas that will accept and receive all signals will not always do great job of just one kind, but out at sea the difference is negligible with the possible exception of IDEN.

These antennas are also good at receivng analog signals and that comes in handy when you have an analog capable phone such as the Motorola M800. The M800 has both analog and digital service capabilities.

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