How did I find this out?

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Fri 25 Nov, 2005 6:21 pm

Here's an odd fact: In my school, I get 0 bars of reception on my phone. However, when you unscrew the antenna and put in a calc to calc cable (round i/o port one), the reception jumps to 4 bars. Crazy huh?

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Fri 25 Nov, 2005 6:25 pm

What do you mean bars of reception?
And on the calc it says it's a Class B device so it transmits radio waves. It could possibly be it.

Post by **benryves** » Fri 25 Nov, 2005 6:44 pm

Mobile phones still have external aerials?

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 25 Nov, 2005 7:49 pm

On some older models you can unscrew the antenna

I don't have any reception at all at the moment... We're snowed in on our campus

It's the weirdest thing ever, we've got 20cm (almost 8 inches) of snowfall in one day, and only here in my city

The rest of the country has a lot of rain and wind, but hardly any snow. Trees are coming down in their entirety, the cell phone network is totally vanished (probably also broken from the heavy snow) and there is no public transportation possible in a radius of about 50km around my city... Bizarre...

Sorry for being so off topic, just had to tell

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 25 Nov, 2005 8:02 pm

But the internet lines seem to still be up right? I guess thats all that matters

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Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Fri 25 Nov, 2005 8:52 pm

Thank God yes

Unfortunately the powerlines seem to have trouble coping with the snow, two small towns close by have no power, and in the rest of the area the lights flicker off and back on from time to time

Pretty creepy stuff. And if the power fails, the network will be gone too of course.

lecks · Post by **lecks** » Sat 26 Nov, 2005 12:56 am

wow no post for 3 hours. network must be gone.

EDIT: 4 hours

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Sat 26 Nov, 2005 2:13 am

Who? What? Where? Me?

You know, I happen to have work to do, people to see, dinners to eat, trains to catch... I even sleep from time to time, be it not very long

In other words; the network is just fine, I was busy doing other things.

Oh by the way, our neighbours were friendly enough to completely block both our exits with huge piles of snow, so I'm even more stuck now then I already was. Of course we started it by blocking one of their two exits(!) earlier this evening, but still it's pretty damn annoying...

currahee · Post by **currahee** » Sat 26 Nov, 2005 3:02 pm

threefingeredguy wrote:Here's an odd fact: In my school, I get 0 bars of reception on my phone. However, when you unscrew the antenna and put in a calc to calc cable (round i/o port one), the reception jumps to 4 bars. Crazy huh?

Nmow I get it. I feel like a dumb@$$. Anyway, It's prob the radio interference at work. Or if you can actually make calls ... well... i'm at a loss

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sat 26 Nov, 2005 9:05 pm

I figured it was the cable extending the surface area. Something like that since it was plugged into the where the antenna should go.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Sat 26 Nov, 2005 9:09 pm

I will test this in my school on monday

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CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Sun 27 Nov, 2005 12:59 am

So, where did you get the idea to try this?

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Sun 27 Nov, 2005 6:51 pm

Frustration, I suppose.

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Mon 28 Nov, 2005 4:20 am

Hey, why don't you get frustrated that the calc screen isn't in color. Maybe you'll stumble into a crazy, yet easy, way to make it do so.

DigiTan · Post by **DigiTan** » Mon 28 Nov, 2005 4:51 am

I'm suprised it worked as well as it did. Usually changing an antenna's length is a big step in the wrong direction.

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