Nokia without ant. port - improving signal - external antenna solutions?

Originally Posted by icerabbit

We have two Nokia 2126 CDMA handsets and are very interested in improving the range / signal strength when we are out on the road or at our weekend spot, which is a very rural area near the Maine western mountains with hardly a tower.

The problem is that the Nokia 2126 phone doesn't have an external antenna port.

We're not looking for an in car hardwired solution. Rather something that would allow use in the car as well as being taken inside a house / camp / ... and you could stick the antenna outside. More of a portable solution that you can take with you on location and is not going to be vehicle dependent.

Through googling I saw an image of a type of snap on sleeve / cover which snaps onto the back of the phone and provides a place to connect an antenna. Which I think would be far better and more durable vs one of stick-on velcro dongle things I saw.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to hunt down a place that would sell one of the snap on antenna adaptors.

Would anybody know a retailer that has these?
Are there other durable solutions?
Anybody who uses a bidirectional amplifier?

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by dutler

use an active personal repeater. new fcc regs have allowed the prolife of active repeaters with out a liecence. a true consumer product.

i read alot of trade journals and it seems that wilson is making the best such product:
http://www.wilsoncellular.com/ListProducts.php?Type=12

make sure you get one that is right for your service - bunch of diff models