On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

Of course disabling your GPS unit will not prevent the fascists from doing triangulation with signal strength, ie the alternative (and cheaper and less precise alternative). That's merely physics and geometry. To counter that, you need to hack the antennae and and can only displace yourself a few miles.

Interestingly, some [early] models had external antenna jacks built in to them. New life for old cell phones!

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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Riad S. Wahby wrote:

"J.A. Terranson" wrote:

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Interestingly, some [early] models had external antenna jacks built in to them.

Many still have test jacks on them. Both my old Samsung A500 and my current Sanyo SCP-8100 have a connector (either MC or SMA, IIRC) on the back hidden under a rubber plug. My guess is that with an appropriate connector you could use, e.g., a pringles can to make your antenna much more directional.

Many phones have such connectors used by car handsfree holders, in order to use an antenna mounted externally on the vehicle instead of transmitting from the handset into the partially open Faraday cage of the car. RF-skilled people should have no problems adding such connectors to their phones even if they aren't there from the factory.