Aerial socket on back of Nokia 6310i ?

Hi folks -

Is this socket a standard connection type? I can't find an equivalent
plug, and I'd like to play around with external antenna to see if I can get
a better signal at home in a rural wilderness....

Mobiland seem to sell an adaptor flylead (listed as " Handset Antenna
Connector" at http://tinyurl.com/2b286d) but I'd prefer not to have a
patchwork of connectors.

TIA for any info -

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
<spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:


>Is this socket a standard connection type?

Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the whole RF
industry has managed since Marconi on about 5 connectors but the
Mobile phone industry needs a completely different connector for each
model of every phone ever made but they do.

>I can't find an equivalent plug,

It is a special Hirose connector as far as I have been able to make
out.

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Antenna solutions for car, caravan, house, office, boat
and tent.
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Peter Parry wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:
>
>> Is this socket a standard connection type?
>
> Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the whole RF
> industry has managed since Marconi on about 5 connectors but the
> Mobile phone industry needs a completely different connector for each
> model of every phone ever made but they do.

Thanks Peter, I feared as much.... Mobiland is my only option then.

> Allgon 1800 Signal Enhancers now GBP20.

Confirmed my order yesterday, hopefully that email made it through the
filter?

In message <5evu2qF39b7gfU1@mid.individual.net>, Steve Walker
<spam-trap@beeb.net> writes
>Peter Parry wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
>> <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this socket a standard connection type?
>>
>>
>
>> Allgon 1800 Signal Enhancers now GBP20.
>
>Confirmed my order yesterday, hopefully that email made it through the
>filter?
>
Steve

Can you let us know how you get on - signal is poor where I live, OK if
I stand in the corner of my office but goes off if I move about! If the
aerial enhances things I might follow your route.

Thanks
--
Richard C

"Peter Parry" <peter@wpp.ltd.uk> wrote in message
news:n1bl83tqm80r809k9nbd6rdaa6oib6113h@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Is this socket a standard connection type?
>
> Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the whole RF
> industry has managed since Marconi on about 5 connectors but the
> Mobile phone industry needs a completely different connector for each
> model of every phone ever made but they do.
>



Five RF connectors?


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SMA
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:22:18 +0100, "MB" <mb@nospam.net> wrote:


>Five RF connectors?

OK - a _slight_ understatement :-) It still doesn't explain why
phone companies seem to have to use a different (non standard) aerial
connector on almost every phone variant they produce.
--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

"Steve Walker" <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote in message
news:5evu2qF39b7gfU1@mid.individual.net
> Peter Parry wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 19:41:03 +0100, "Steve Walker"
> > <spam-trap@beeb.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this socket a standard connection type?
> >
> > Yes, it's a standard Nokia 6310. Don't ask me why the
> > whole RF industry has managed since Marconi on about 5
> > connectors but the Mobile phone industry needs a
> > completely different connector for each model of every
> > phone ever made but they do.
>
> Thanks Peter, I feared as much.... Mobiland is my
> only option then.

Or you could do what I did, as long as you're capable of minimal
construction.

Get a CARK-91 car kit off eBay, put it in a constructor's project box,
ideally with a sloping front panel. Mount the phone cradle on the front of
this and fit the speaker and microphone where convenient. If you prefer to
talk via a handset, get the HSU-1 and mount this alongside the phone
cradle.

Inside, put a small 12V PSU and cable the antenna socket to a TNC on the
rear. Plug a magnetic mount aerial into this and place where you get the
best signal.

Result of an hour's work, one desk-standing 6310i..!


Ivor

"Peter Parry" <peter@wpp.ltd.uk> wrote in message
news:9v3n8394g8r1mcl0j4r3a21l8cglnbuhls@4ax.com
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:22:18 +0100, "MB" <mb@nospam.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> > Five RF connectors?
>
> OK - a _slight_ understatement :-) It still doesn't
> explain why phone companies seem to have to use a
> different (non standard) aerial connector on almost every
> phone variant they produce.

For the same reason every piece of kit from camcorders to Ipods have
different batteries - to force you to buy their overpriced accessories.

When I bought my last digital camera, a key condition was that it accepted
2 AA cells.


Ivor

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:19:07 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:

>For the same reason every piece of kit from camcorders to Ipods have
>different batteries - to force you to buy their overpriced accessories.

I really wouldn't mind if this was the case but having produced these
damn fool connectors the phone manufacturers then usually don't sell
anything to go in them.
--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:16:56 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:


>Result of an hour's work, one desk-standing 6310i..!

Many moons ago we made a desk mounted 2140 for someone who required
it to match his antique desk. Most of the car kit lived behind the
desk but somewhere I still have a photograph of what was probably the
only Mahogany mobile phone holder ever made.
--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/