New air-card / antenna wanted

[Jason Foster]

I've picked up a Sierra Wireless (for Sprint) Compass 597 USB card. It has an external jack for an antenna, which I believe to be an SMK (but that's off they sprint site, which wasn't exactly clear about it). I want to get an external antenna for it, maybe two. I'm thinking about one omni directional and one beam antenna.

Need suggestions on how to get stuff for this. Which vendors to check out, which antenna you guys are using for Sprint. I'd even build my own antenna, if I knew for sure which frequency the network was one (can't seem to get that information accurately).

 

[Steve Polley]

Sprint primarily runs on 1900Mhz but will roam on other partners that use 800Mhz. If you build an antenna for the card, it will have to be a dual band design. I am using an old Wilson cell antenna with the FME female connector. I have the 595U card as a backup and I purchased an antenna adapter for it from 3gstore.com. Im sure also that maximum signal should have this as well.

 

[Gordon Spencer]

We stock the adapter for the compass. I would use a magnetic mount like our 5 DB 13 inch on your vehicle and one of our yagis for your home . Remember one of the dual band amplifiers will really lock in the signal for you.Click on our banner ad in the forum or in my signature to get to our web site

I've picked up a Sierra Wireless (for Sprint) Compass 597 USB card. It has an external jack for an antenna, which I believe to be an SMK (but that's off they sprint site, which wasn't exactly clear about it). I want to get an external antenna for it, maybe two. I'm thinking about one omni directional and one beam antenna.

Need suggestions on how to get stuff for this. Which vendors to check out, which antenna you guys are using for Sprint. I'd even build my own antenna, if I knew for sure which frequency the network was one (can't seem to get that information accurately).