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alanhouser
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Jan 12, 2015

Any Secret to using an external antenna with the LG6100D?

Hello. I'm thrilled to have a shiny-new Netgear LTE Gateway LG6100D from Sprint, or I was until I cannot get it to work with an external antenna system. I bought a 50' LMR-400 cable and an adapto...
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alanhouser
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Jan 12, 2015
VE6CGX wrote:
Hi,
50' long cable(is it very good quality one?) ought to have some loss. Is the target LOS? Keep in mind visual LOS and RF wave LOS are not same. You have to keep trying in many different position and height. Result is sometimes
hard to believe.


Thanks. Yes, it's very high-quality Wilson LMR-400 low-loss cable.

Good to know on LOS/'RF LOS'; We were told by sprint that even though we're one mile from the tower, we're sitting on the dark-side of the "V" pattern emitting from the tower. Inside the house we get 1-bar on both a Netgear Zing and the 6100. The data speed is high (12-20MBPS down; 8-10 up), but can drop from one to zero bars several times throughout the day. If I walk 50-70' from the house, I instantly get FULL BARS. —so the thought of using a yagi is to push my antenna lobe out there into the sweet-spot. I still haven't found it yet, but has been too cold to play outside with it.