Re: NEWS: World record GSM cell phone call from top of Mt Everest

05-22-2007, 02:28 PM

>Yeah, but could he manage the same from the middle of West Virginia?
I saw on the news that thieves took info from a store's unsecured WiFi
using a Pringles can as an antenna while they parked at the far side of
the parking lot. Is there any similarly lo-tech antenna to improve the
range of a cell-phone?

05-22-2007, 02:46 PM

tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>> Yeah, but could he manage the same from the middle of West Virginia?
> I saw on the news that thieves took info from a store's unsecured WiFi
> using a Pringles can as an antenna while they parked at the far side of
> the parking lot. Is there any similarly lo-tech antenna to improve the
> range of a cell-phone?

Of course you can build an antenna for GSM or any other type of mobile
or cell phone. The only problem with GSM is the timing, once you get
further away from the cell you will encroach on another user's time
slice and you will be booted even though you may well have a good signal.

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